About the Authors

Craig Leisher

cleisher@tnc.org

Affiliation Central Science, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Roy Brouwer

Affiliation Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Timothy M. Boucher

Affiliation Central Science, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Rogier Vogelij

Affiliation Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

W. R. Bainbridge

Affiliation Umgano Project Advisor, Umgano, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

M. Sanjayan

Affiliation Central Science, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Funding included support from the Schooner Foundation that could be deemed a commercial source. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL RB TB. Performed the experiments: RB TB RV WB. Analyzed the data: RB TB CL RV. Wrote the paper: CL RB TB MS WB.