About the Authors

Alienor L. M. Chauvenet

a.chauvenet@uq.edu.au

Affiliations Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Caitlin D. Kuempel

Affiliations Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Jennifer McGowan

Affiliations Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Maria Beger

Affiliations Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Hugh P. Possingham

Affiliations Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, The Nature Conservancy, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HPP ALMC. Data curation: ALMC CDK JM MB. Formal analysis: HPP ALMC JM. Funding acquisition: HPP MB. Investigation: HPP ALMC CDK JM MB. Methodology: HPP ALMC CDK JM MB. Project administration: ALMC. Resources: HPP. Software: ALMC HPP CDK. Supervision: HPP MB. Validation: HPP ALMC CDK. Visualization: ALMC. Writing – original draft: ALMC. Writing – review & editing: HPP ALMC CDK JM MB.