About the Authors
- Meghan W McKnight
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: meghan.mcknight@gmail.com
Affiliation Curriculum in Ecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Peter S White
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Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Robert I McDonald
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Affiliation Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- John F Lamoreux
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Affiliations IUCN/SSC–CI/CABS Biodiversity Assessment Unit, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America , Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
- Wes Sechrest
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Robert S Ridgely
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Affiliation World Land Trust–US, Deerfield, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Simon N Stuart
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Affiliation IUCN/SSC–CI/CABS Biodiversity Assessment Unit, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
MWM and PSW conceived and designed the study. RIM contributed new analytical tools. MWM, RIM, and JFL analyzed the data. WS, RSR, and SNS were responsible for the collection, organization, and verification of the species range maps. MWM, PSW, and JFL wrote the paper, with extensive input from RIM, WS, RSR, and SNS.