About the Authors

Kerry A. Brown

k.brown@kingston.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Kingston University London, Surrey, United Kingdom

Dan F. B. Flynn

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Nicola K. Abram

Affiliation Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

J. Carter Ingram

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Steig E. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Patricia Wright

Affiliation Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: KAB DFBF. Wrote the paper: KAB DFBF NKA JCI SEJ PW. Survey and questionnaire design: SEJ NKA PCW. Conducted survey and questionnaire: SEJ NKA PCW. Wrote code for Functional Diversity and redundancy analysis: DFBF.