About the Authors
- David A. Keith
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* E-mail: david.keith@unsw.edu.au
Affiliations Australian Wetlands Rivers and Landscapes Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia
- Jon Paul Rodríguez
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Affiliations Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela, Provita, Caracas, Venezuela, EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and IUCN Species Survival Commission, Gland, Switzerland
- Kathryn M. Rodríguez-Clark
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Affiliation Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
- Emily Nicholson
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Kaisu Aapala
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Affiliation Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Alfonso Alonso
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Affiliation Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., United States of America
- Marianne Asmussen
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Affiliations Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela, EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America
- Steven Bachman
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Affiliation Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
- Alberto Basset
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Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Ecotekne Center, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
- Edmund G. Barrow
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Affiliation IUCN Global Ecosystem Management Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
- John S. Benson
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Affiliation Royal Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Melanie J. Bishop
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia
- Ronald Bonifacio
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Affiliation Science Resource Centre, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Thomas M. Brooks
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Affiliations IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and IUCN Species Survival Commission, Gland, Switzerland, NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America
- Mark A. Burgman
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Affiliation Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Assessment, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Patrick Comer
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Affiliation NatureServe, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
- Francisco A. Comín
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Affiliation Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Zaragoza. Spain
- Franz Essl
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Affiliations Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria, Department of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Don Faber-Langendoen
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Affiliation NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America
- Peter G. Fairweather
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Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Robert J. Holdaway
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Affiliation Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
- Michael Jennings
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Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America
- Richard T. Kingsford
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Affiliation Australian Wetlands Rivers and Landscapes Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Rebecca E. Lester
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Affiliation School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Warnambool, Victoria, Australia
- Ralph Mac Nally
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Affiliation Australian Centre for Biodiversity, School of Biological Sciences Monash University, Victoria, Australia
- Michael A. McCarthy
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Justin Moat
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Affiliation Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
- María A. Oliveira-Miranda
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Affiliation Provita, Caracas, Venezuela
- Phil Pisanu
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Affiliation Science Resource Centre, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Brigitte Poulin
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Affiliation Tour du Valat Research Center, Arles, France
- Tracey J. Regan
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Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Uwe Riecken
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Affiliation German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany
- Mark D. Spalding
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Affiliation The Nature Conservancy and Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
- Sergio Zambrano-Martínez
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Affiliation Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
Competing Interests
Provita is a non-governmental conservation organization based in Venezuela, focused on the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems (www.provitaonline.org or www.provita.org.ve). Provita has been involved with the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems effort for several years, and has therefore sponsored some of the authors’ activities (which they acknowledge). 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: DAK JPR KMR EN KA AA MA SB AB EGB JSB MJB RB TMB MAB PC FAC FE DFL PGF RJH MJ RTK REL RM MAM PP BP TJR UR MDS. Performed the experiments: DAK JPR SB AB JSB MJB RB FE PGF RJH RTK REL RM JM MAOM PP BP UR MDS. Analyzed the data: DAK JPR KMR EN MA SB AB JSB MJB RB FE PGF RJH RTK REL RM JM MAOM PP BP UR MDS SZM. Wrote the paper: DAK JPR KMR EN KA MA SB AB EGB JSB MJB RB TMB MAB PC FAC FE DFL PGF RJH MJ RTK REL RM MAM PP BP TJR UR MDS.