About the Authors

Tara G. Martin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Tara.Martin@ubc.ca

Affiliation Centre for Applied Conservation Research, Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Iadine Chadès

Affiliation INRA, UR875, Unité de Biométrie et Intelligence Artificielle, Toulouse, France

Peter Arcese

Affiliation Centre for Applied Conservation Research, Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peter P. Marra

Affiliation Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, National Zoological Park, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Hugh P. Possingham

Affiliation The Ecology Centre and Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

D. Ryan Norris

Affiliations Centre for Applied Conservation Research, Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM DN IC. Performed the experiments: TM. Analyzed the data: TM IC. Wrote the paper: TM DN IC. Other: Discussion of methods: HP. Discussion of results and editing of manuscript: PA HP PM.