About the Authors

Tim Newbold

Tim.Newbold@unep-wcmc.org

Affiliations United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stuart H. M. Butchart

Affiliation BirdLife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Çağan H. Şekercioğlu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Drew W. Purves

Affiliation Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jörn P. W. Scharlemann

Affiliation United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Tim Newbold, Drew W. Purves are affiliated to 'Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research Cambridge'. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products derived from the work presented in this paper. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All the other authors have declared they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN JPWS DWP. Performed the experiments: TN. Analyzed the data: TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHMB CHS. Wrote the paper: TN JPWS SHMB CHS DWP.