About the Authors

Grégoire Certain

Gregoire.Certain@imr.no

Current address: Institute of Marine Research, Tromsø, Norway

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway

Olav Skarpaas

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Oslo, Norway

Jarle-Werner Bjerke

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Tromsø, Norway

Erik Framstad

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Oslo, Norway

Markus Lindholm

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo, Norway

Jan-Erik Nilsen

Affiliation The Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, Ås, Norway

Ann Norderhaug

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (BIOFORSK), Stjørdal, Norway

Eivind Oug

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo, Norway

Hans-Christian Pedersen

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway

Ann-Kristin Schartau

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Oslo, Norway

Gro I. van der Meeren

Affiliation Institute for Marine Research (IMR), Bergen, Norway

Iulie Aslaksen

Affiliation Statistics Norway (SSB), Oslo, Norway

Steinar Engen

Affiliations Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Centre for Conservation Biology, Trondheim, Norway

Per-Arild Garnåsjordet

Affiliation Statistics Norway (SSB), Oslo, Norway

Pål Kvaløy

Affiliation Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway

Magnar Lillegård

Affiliation Statistics Norway (SSB), Oslo, Norway

Nigel G. Yoccoz

Affiliations Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Tromsø, Norway, University of Tromsø (UiT), Tromsø, Norway

Signe Nybø

Affiliations Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway, Directorate for Nature Management, Trondheim, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC OS SN. Performed the experiments: GC OS SN. Analyzed the data: GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC OS JWB EF ML JEN AN EO HCP AKS GM IA SE PAG PK ML NGY SN. Wrote the paper: GC. Reviewed/edited the Ms: OS JWB EF ML JEN AN EO HCP AKS GM IA SE PAG PK ML NGY SN.