About the Authors

Scott H. Newman

Affiliation EMPRES Wildlife Unit, Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases, Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

Nichola J. Hill

Affiliations United States Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, California, United States of America, Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Kyle A. Spragens

Affiliation United States Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, California, United States of America

Daniel Janies

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Igor O. Voronkin

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Diann J. Prosser

Affiliation United States Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Beltsville Lab, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Baoping Yan

Affiliation Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Fumin Lei

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Nyambayar Batbayar

Affiliation Wildlife Science and Conservation Center, Bayanzurkh District Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Tseveenmyadag Natsagdorj

Affiliation Ornithological Laboratory, Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Charles M. Bishop

Affiliation Bangor University, School of Biological Sciences, Brambell Laboratories, Bangor, Gwynedd, United Kingdom

Patrick J. Butler

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Martin Wikelski

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany

Sivananinthaperumal Balachandran

Affiliation Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, Mumbai, India

Taej Mundkur

Affiliation Wetlands International, 471, 6700 AL, Wageningen, The Netherlands

David C. Douglas

Affiliation United States Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, Juneau, Alaska, United States of America

John Y. Takekawa

john_takekawa@usgs.gov

Affiliation United States Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station, Vallejo, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHN JYT NJH. Performed the experiments: SHN JYT NJH KAS DJP BPY FML NB TN CMB PJB MW SB TM. Analyzed the data: NJH KAS DJ IOV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYT DJ DCD. Wrote the paper: SHN NJH JYT.