About the Authors

Ferdinando Villa

ferdinando.villa@bc3research.org

Affiliation Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

Kenneth J. Bagstad

Affiliation Geosciences & Environmental Change Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Brian Voigt

Affiliation Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Gary W. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Rosimeiry Portela

Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Miroslav Honzák

Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

David Batker

Affiliation Earth Economics, Tacoma, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FV KB BV GJ RP. Performed the experiments: FV KB BV GJ. Analyzed the data: KB FV BV RP. Wrote the paper: FV KB BV GJ DB RP MH. Design and implementation of the modeling language and software: FV. Design and implementation of flow models: GJ FV. Managed Madagascar case study: RP MH. Managed Puget case study: DB KB.