About the Authors

Richard J. Hamilton

rhamilton@tnc.org

Affiliations The Nature Conservancy, Asia Pacific Division, 245 Riverside Drive, West End, Brisbane, QLD, 4101, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia

Tomas Bird

Affiliation School of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom

Collin Gereniu

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Solomon Islands Field Office, PO Box 759, Honiara, Solomon Islands

John Pita

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Isabel Environmental Office, Buala, Isabel Province, Solomon Islands

Peter C. Ramohia

Affiliation ADB Coral Triangle of the Pacific Project, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management & Meteorology, Honiara, Solomon Islands

Richard Walter

Affiliation Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Clara Goerlich

Affiliations The Nature Conservancy, Asia Pacific Division, 245 Riverside Drive, West End, Brisbane, QLD, 4101, Australia, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Colin Limpus

Affiliation Threatened Species Unit, Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, Queensland Government, 41 Boggo Rd., Dutton Park, Brisbane, QLD, 4102, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PCR JP. Performed the experiments: PCR JP. Analyzed the data: TB RJH C. Gereniu C. Goerlich. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL RJH RW TB. Wrote the paper: RJH RW TB.