About the Authors

Walter Jetz

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wjetz@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David S Wilcove

Affiliations Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America , Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Andrew P Dobson

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

WJ, DSW, and APD conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, and wrote the paper. WJ performed the experiments and analyzed the data.