About the Authors

Howard B. Wilson

h.wilson1@uq.edu.au

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Erik Meijaard

Affiliations Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, People and Nature Consulting International, Jakarta, Indonesia

Oscar Venter

Affiliations Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and the School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

Marc Ancrenaz

Affiliation Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project, Sandakan, Malaysia

Hugh P. Possingham

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

Co-author Erik Meijaard is employed by People and Nature Consulting International, Jakarta, Indonesia. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EM OV MA. Performed the experiments: HW OV HPP. Analyzed the data: HW EM OV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM OV MA. Wrote the paper: HW EM OV MA HPP.