About the Authors

Taylor H. Ricketts

taylor.ricketts@wwfus.org

Affiliation World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Britaldo Soares-Filho

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca

Affiliations Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Global Environment Facility, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Daniel Nepstad

Affiliations Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia, Belem, Brazil

Alexander Pfaff

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Annie Petsonk

Affiliation Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Anthony Anderson

Affiliation World Wildlife Fund-Brazil, Brasilia, Brazil

Doug Boucher

Affiliation Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Andrea Cattaneo

Affiliation Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc Conte

Affiliation Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ken Creighton

Affiliation WWF-Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

Lawrence Linden

Affiliation Linden Trust for Conservation, New York, New York, United States of America

Claudio Maretti

Affiliation World Wildlife Fund-Brazil, Brasilia, Brazil

Paulo Moutinho

Affiliations Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia, Belem, Brazil

Roger Ullman

Affiliation Linden Trust for Conservation, New York, New York, United States of America

Ray Victurine

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United, States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.