About the Authors

Margot S. Bass

Affiliation Finding Species, Takoma Park, Maryland, United States of America

Matt Finer

matt@saveamericasforests.org

Affiliation Save America's Forests, Washington D. C., United States of America

Clinton N. Jenkins

Affiliations Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Holger Kreft

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia

Affiliations Department of Geography, King's College London, Strand, London, United Kingdom, College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Shawn F. McCracken

Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, United States of America, TADPOLE Organization, San Marcos, Texas, United States of America

Nigel C. A. Pitman

Affiliation Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter H. English

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Kelly Swing

Affiliation College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Gorky Villa

Affiliation Finding Species, Takoma Park, Maryland, United States of America

Anthony Di Fiore

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Christian C. Voigt

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Thomas H. Kunz

Affiliation Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB MSF. Performed the experiments: MB MSF CNJ HK DFCH SFM NCP PE KS GV ADF CV TK. Analyzed the data: MB MSF CNJ HK DFCH SFM NCP PE KS GV ADF CV TK. Wrote the paper: MB MSF CNJ HK DFCH SFM NCP PE KS GV ADF CV TK. Designed and created figures: CNJ HK.