About the Authors

Linwood Pendleton

Contributed equally to this work with: Linwood Pendleton, Daniel C. Donato

Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Daniel C. Donato

Contributed equally to this work with: Linwood Pendleton, Daniel C. Donato

ddonato@wisc.edu

Affiliation Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology Lab, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Brian C. Murray

Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephen Crooks

Affiliation ESA Phillip Williams & Associates, San Francisco, California, United States of America

W. Aaron Jenkins

Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Samantha Sifleet

Affiliation United States Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher Craft

Affiliation School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

James W. Fourqurean

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, United States of America

J. Boone Kauffman

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America and Center for International Forest Research, Bogor, Indonesia

Núria Marbà

Affiliation Department of Global Change Research, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain

Patrick Megonigal

Affiliation Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America

Emily Pidgeon

Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Dorothee Herr

Affiliation International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

David Gordon

Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alexis Baldera

Affiliation The Ocean Conservancy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

Appointment funding for one author (SC) comes from ESA Phillip Williams & Associates, a commercial source. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP DCD BCM SC WAJ SS CC JWF JBK NM PM EP DH DG AB. Analyzed the data: LP DCD BCM SC WAJ CC JWF JBK NM PM. Wrote the paper: LP DCD BCM SC WAJ SS CC JWF JBK NM PM EP DH DG AB.