About the Authors

Benjamin S. Halpern

halpern@nceas.ucsb.edu

Affiliations National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, United Kingdom

Melanie Frazier

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Jamie Afflerbach

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Casey O’Hara

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Steven Katona

Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Julia S. Stewart Lowndes

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Ning Jiang

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Erich Pacheco

Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Courtney Scarborough

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Johanna Polsenberg

Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BSH MF JA CO. Data curation: MF JA CO. Formal analysis: MF JA CO. Funding acquisition: BSH JP. Investigation: BSH MF JA CO. Methodology: BSH MF JA CO JSSL CS. Project administration: BSH MF. Resources: BSH. Software: MF JA CO. Supervision: BSH. Validation: MF JA CO JSSL. Visualization: MF. Writing – original draft: BSH. Writing – review & editing: BSH MF JA CO SK JSSL NJ EP CS JP.