About the Authors

David B. Lindenmayer

david.lindenmayer@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and National Environmental Research Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Philip S. Barton

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and National Environmental Research Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Peter W. Lane

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and National Environmental Research Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Martin J. Westgate

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and National Environmental Research Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Lachlan McBurney

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and National Environmental Research Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

David Blair

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and National Environmental Research Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Philip Gibbons

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and National Environmental Research Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Gene E. Likens

Affiliations Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DBL. Performed the experiments: DBL LM DB. Analyzed the data: PWL. Wrote the paper: DBL PSB PWL MJW LM DB PG GEL.