About the Authors

Erle C. Ellis

ece@umbc.edu

Affiliation Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Erica C. Antill

Affiliation Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Holger Kreft

Affiliation Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography Group, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECE ECA HK. Performed the experiments: ECE ECA HK. Analyzed the data: ECE ECA HK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ECE ECA HK. Wrote the paper: ECE ECA HK.