About the Authors

Andrew Balmford

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew Balmford, Jianchu Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.balmford@zoo.cam.ac.uk (AB); jxu@mail.kib.ac.cn (JX)

Affiliation Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Huafang Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, World Agroforestry Center, East and Central Asia, Kunming, China

Ben Phalan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Mingcheng Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, World Agroforestry Center, East and Central Asia, Kunming, China

Christine O’Connell

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Cath Tayleur

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, United Kingdom

Jianchu Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew Balmford, Jianchu Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.balmford@zoo.cam.ac.uk (AB); jxu@mail.kib.ac.cn (JX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, World Agroforestry Center, East and Central Asia, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.