About the Authors

Bryan P. Wallace

b.wallace@conservation.org

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Marine Conservation, Duke University, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrew D. DiMatteo

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Marine Geospatial Ecology Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Brendan J. Hurley

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Elena M. Finkbeiner

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Marine Conservation, Duke University, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Alan B. Bolten

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biology, Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Milani Y. Chaloupka

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Ecological Modelling Services, Pty Ltd, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Brian J. Hutchinson

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

Diego Amorocho

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Centro de Investigación para el Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo, Cali, Colombia

Karen A. Bjorndal

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biology, Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jerome Bourjea

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques, IFREMER, Ile Reunion, France

Brian W. Bowen

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States of America

Raquel Briseño Dueñas

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Banco de Información sobre Tortugas Marinas (BITMAR), Unidad Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

Paolo Casale

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin,” University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mediterranean Turtle Programme, World Wildlife Fund-Italy, Rome, Italy

B. C. Choudhury

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Endangered Species Management, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Alice Costa

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, World Wildlife Fund-Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique

Peter H. Dutton

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alejandro Fallabrino

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Karumbé, Montevideo, Uruguay

Alexandre Girard

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Association RENATURA, Albens, France, and Pointe-Noire, Congo

Marc Girondot

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Matthew H. Godfrey

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Mark Hamann

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Milagros López-Mendilaharsu

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Projeto Tamar-ICMBio/Fundação Pro Tamar, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil, Department of Ecology, Institute of Biology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maria Angela Marcovaldi

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Projeto Tamar-ICMBio/Fundação Pro Tamar, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil

Jeanne A. Mortimer

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

John A. Musick

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia, United States of America

Ronel Nel

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, School of Environmental Sciences, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Summerstrand Campus, South Africa

Nicolas J. Pilcher

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Marine Research Foundation, Sabah, Malaysia

Jeffrey A. Seminoff

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Marine Turtle Ecology and Assessment Program, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sebastian Troëng

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Scientific Advisory Committee, Sea Turtle Conservancy, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Blair Witherington

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Melbourne Beach, Florida, United States of America

Roderic B. Mast

Affiliations International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

MYC is employed by a commercial company that provides ecological modelling services, and although he was involved in all aspects of this study, his affiliation did not interfere in any way with the objective development or execution of this study; MHG and BW are employed by U.S. state government agencies, and PHD and JAS are employed by a U.S. federal government agency; however these affiliations did not interfere with the objective development or execution of this study. All authors confirm that these competing interests do not alter their adherence to all PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, i.e., to make freely available any materials and information described in their publication that are reasonably requested by others for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BPW ADD BJH EMF ABB MYC BJH FAAG DA KAB JB BWB RBD PC BCC AC PHD AF AG MG MHG MH MLM MAM JAM JAM RN NJP JAS ST BW RBM. Performed the experiments: BPW ADD BJH EMF. Analyzed the data: BPW ADD BJH EMF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BPW ADD BJH EMF ABB MYC BJH FAAG DA KAB JB BWB RBD PC BCC AC PHD AF AG MG MHG MH MLM MAM JAM JAM RN NJP JAS ST BW RBM. Wrote the paper: BPW ADD BJH EMF ABB MYC BJH FAAG DA KAB JB BWB RBD PC BCC AC PHD AF AG MG MHG MH MLM MAM JAM JAM RN NJP JAS ST BW RBM.