About the Authors

Elizabeth R. Selig

eselig@conservation.org

Affiliation Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Will R. Turner

Affiliation Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Sebastian Troëng

Affiliations Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Bryan P. Wallace

Affiliations Oceanic Society, Ross, California, United States of America, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Benjamin S. Halpern

Affiliations National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Imperial College London, Ascot, United Kingdom

Kristin Kaschner

Affiliations Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany, Centre de Synthèse et d'Analyse sur la Biodiversité (CESAB), Aix-en-Provence, France

Ben G. Lascelles

Affiliation Global Seabird Programme, Birdlife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kent E. Carpenter

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America, Global Species Programme, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland

Russell A. Mittermeier

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ERS WRT ST BPW BSH RAM. Analyzed the data: ERS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSH KK BGL KEC. Wrote the paper: ERS WRT ST BPW KK KEC.