About the Authors

Kirsten Schwarz

schwarzk1@nku.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States of America

Michail Fragkias

Affiliation Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics (COBE), Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, United States of America

Christopher G. Boone

Affiliation School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Weiqi Zhou

Affiliation Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Melissa McHale

Affiliation Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

J. Morgan Grove

Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne

Affiliation University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and Spatial Analysis Lab, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Joseph P. McFadden

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Geoffrey L. Buckley

Affiliation Department of Geography, Ohio University, Clippinger Laboratories 109, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Dan Childers

Affiliation School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Laura Ogden

Affiliation Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Stephanie Pincetl

Affiliation Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Diane Pataki

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Ali Whitmer

Affiliation Georgetown University, Washington D.C., United States of America

Mary L. Cadenasso

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS MF CGB WZ MRM JMG JOD JPM GLB DC LO SP DP AW MLC. Analyzed the data: KS MF CGB WZ JOD. Wrote the paper: KS MF CGB WZ MRM JMG JPM MLC.