About the Authors

Karen C. Seto

karen.seto@yale.edu

Affiliation Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michail Fragkias

Affiliation International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project, Global Institute for Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Burak Güneralp

Current address: Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael K. Reilly

Current address: Association of Bay Area Governments, Oakland, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCS MF BG MKR. Performed the experiments: KCS MF BG MKR. Analyzed the data: KCS MF BG MKR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCS MF BG MKR. Wrote the paper: KCS MF BG MKR.