About the Authors
- Linwood Pendleton
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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
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Contributed equally to this work with: Linwood Pendleton, Daniel C. Donato
* E-mail: ddonato@wisc.edu
Affiliation Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology Lab, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Brian C. Murray
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Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Stephen Crooks
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Affiliation ESA Phillip Williams & Associates, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- W. Aaron Jenkins
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Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Samantha Sifleet
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Affiliation United States Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- Christopher Craft
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Affiliation School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
- James W. Fourqurean
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, United States of America
- J. Boone Kauffman
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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
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Affiliation Department of Global Change Research, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain
- Patrick Megonigal
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Affiliation Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America
- Emily Pidgeon
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Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America
- Dorothee Herr
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Affiliation International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- David Gordon
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Affiliation Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Alexis Baldera
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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.