About the Authors

Marion Pfeifer

marion.pfeifer@googlemail.com

Affiliation Environment Department, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Neil D. Burgess

Affiliations Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, WWF-US Conservation Science, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Ruth D. Swetnam

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Philip J. Platts

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Simon Willcock

Affiliation School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Robert Marchant

Affiliation Environment Department, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP NDB PJP RM. Performed the experiments: MP. Analyzed the data: MP PJP RDS. Wrote the paper: MP NDB PJP SW RM.