About the Authors

José M. V. Fragoso

Contributed equally to this work with: José M. V. Fragoso, Kirsten M. Silvius

fragoso@stanford.edu

Current address: Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305–5020, United States of America

Taal Levi

‡ These authors contributed subsets of effort equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

Luiz F. B. Oliveira

‡ These authors contributed subsets of effort equally to this work.

Affiliation Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, UFRJ, RJ, 20.940–040, Brazil

Jeffrey B. Luzar

‡ These authors contributed subsets of effort equally to this work.

Affiliation Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305–5020, United States of America

Han Overman

‡ These authors contributed subsets of effort equally to this work.

Affiliation Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York-College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, 13210, United States of America

Jane M. Read

‡ These authors contributed subsets of effort equally to this work.

Affiliation Geography Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13244, United States of America

Kirsten M. Silvius

Contributed equally to this work with: José M. V. Fragoso, Kirsten M. Silvius

Affiliation Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMVF KMS JMR LFBO. Performed the experiments: HO JBL JMVF KMS JMR LFBO. Analyzed the data: JMVF TL KMS. Wrote the paper: JMVF KMS TL LFBO JBL HO JMR.