About the Authors

Lily M. van Eeden

Contributed equally to this work with: Lily M. van Eeden, Ann Eklund, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Adrian Treves

lily.vaneeden@sydney.edu.au (LMVE); ann.eklund@slu.se (AE); jmiller@defenders.org (JRBM); atreves@wisc.edu (AT)

Affiliation Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

Ann Eklund

Contributed equally to this work with: Lily M. van Eeden, Ann Eklund, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Adrian Treves

lily.vaneeden@sydney.edu.au (LMVE); ann.eklund@slu.se (AE); jmiller@defenders.org (JRBM); atreves@wisc.edu (AT)

Affiliation Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden

Jennifer R. B. Miller

Contributed equally to this work with: Lily M. van Eeden, Ann Eklund, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Adrian Treves

lily.vaneeden@sydney.edu.au (LMVE); ann.eklund@slu.se (AE); jmiller@defenders.org (JRBM); atreves@wisc.edu (AT)

Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Center for Conservation Innovation, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, DC, United States of America

José Vicente López-Bao

Affiliation Research Unit of Biodiversity, Oviedo University, Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quirós, Mieres, Spain

Guillaume Chapron

Affiliation Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden

Mikael R. Cejtin

Affiliations Department of Natural Sciences, Paul Smith’s College, Paul Smiths, New York, United States of America, Lake Placid Land Conservancy, Lake Placid, New York, United States of America

Mathew S. Crowther

Affiliation Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

Christopher R. Dickman

Affiliation Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

Jens Frank

Affiliation Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden

Miha Krofel

Affiliation Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

David W. Macdonald

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Tubney, Abingdon, United Kingdom

Jeannine McManus

Affiliations Research Department, Landmark Foundation, Riversdale, South Africa, School of Animal, Plants and Environmental Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa

Tara K. Meyer

Affiliation Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Arthur D. Middleton

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

Thomas M. Newsome

Affiliations Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Global Trophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

William J. Ripple

Affiliation Global Trophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Euan G. Ritchie

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

Oswald J. Schmitz

Affiliation Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kelly J. Stoner

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society Rocky Mountain Regional Program, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Mahdieh Tourani

Affiliation Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Adrian Treves

Contributed equally to this work with: Lily M. van Eeden, Ann Eklund, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Adrian Treves

lily.vaneeden@sydney.edu.au (LMVE); ann.eklund@slu.se (AE); jmiller@defenders.org (JRBM); atreves@wisc.edu (AT)

Affiliation Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.