About the Authors

Darren J. Kriticos

Darren.Kriticos@csiro.au

Affiliations CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australia, InSTePP, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, CRC National Plant Biosecurity, Bruce, Australia, Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), Rotorua, New Zealand

Agathe Leriche

Current address: IMEP, Université Aix-Marseille 3, Europôle méditerranéen de l’Arbois, Aix-en-Provence, France

Affiliations CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australia, InSTePP, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, CRC National Plant Biosecurity, Bruce, Australia

David J. Palmer

Affiliation Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), Rotorua, New Zealand

David C. Cook

Affiliations CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra, Australia, CRC National Plant Biosecurity, Bruce, Australia, Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Bunbury, Australia, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Eckehard G. Brockerhoff

Affiliation Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), Christchurch, New Zealand

Andréa E. A. Stephens

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, Australia

Affiliation HortResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand

Michael S. Watt

Affiliation Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), Christchurch, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJK AL AEAS DCC MSW. Performed the experiments: DJK AL DCC. Analyzed the data: DJK AL DJP DCC MSW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL DJP AEAS DCC. Wrote the paper: DJK AL EGB MSW.