About the Authors

Tim R. McClanahan

tmcclanahan@wcs.org

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

Simon D. Donner

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jeffrey A. Maynard

Affiliation Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Papetoai, Moorea, Polynesie Francaise

M. Aaron MacNeil

Affiliation Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Nicholas A. J. Graham

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Joseph Maina

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Andrew C. Baker

Affiliation Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jahson B. Alemu I.

Affiliation Institute of Marine Affairs, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

Maria Beger

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Stuart J. Campbell

Affiliation Indonesian Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bogor, Java, Indonesia

Emily S. Darling

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

C. Mark Eakin

Affiliation Coral Reef Watch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Scott F. Heron

Affiliations Coral Reef Watch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Stacy D. Jupiter

Affiliation Fiji Country Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Suva, Fiji

Carolyn J. Lundquist

Affiliation National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand

Elizabeth McLeod

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Peter J. Mumby

Affiliation Marine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Michelle J. Paddack

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Elizabeth R. Selig

Affiliation Science+Knowledge Division, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States of America

Robert van Woesik

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TRM SDD JAM MAM NAJG JMM ACB JBA MB SJC ESD CME SFH SDJ CJL EM PJM MJP ERS RvW. Performed the experiments: TRM SDD JAM MAM NAJG JMM ACB JBA MB SJC ESD CME SFH SDJ CJL EM PJM MJP ERS RvW. Analyzed the data: TRM SDD JAM MAM NAJG JMM. Wrote the paper: TRM SDD JAM MAM NAJG JMM ACB JBA MB SJC ESD CME SFH SDJ CJL EM PJM MJP ERS RvW.