About the Authors

Matthew L. Farnsworth

matt@csp-inc.org

Affiliation Conservation Science Partners, 5 Old Town Square, Suite 205, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Brett G. Dickson

Affiliation Conservation Science Partners, 5 Old Town Square, Suite 205, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Luke J. Zachmann

Affiliation Conservation Science Partners, 5 Old Town Square, Suite 205, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Ericka E. Hegeman

Affiliation Conservation Science Partners, 5 Old Town Square, Suite 205, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Amanda R. Cangelosi

Affiliation Conservation Science Partners, 5 Old Town Square, Suite 205, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Thomas G. Jackson Jr.

Affiliation Kaweah Biological Consulting, Inc., Three Rivers, California, United States of America

Amanda F. Scheib

Affiliation Scheib Biological, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

NRG Energy Services, Google Inc., BrightSource Energy, Solar Partners I, Solar Partners II, and Solar Partners VIII provided funding towards this study. TGJ is an employee of Kaweah Biological Consulting, Inc. AFS is an employee of Scheib Biological. 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: MLF BGD LJZ EEH. Performed the experiments: MLF BGD LJZ EEH. Analyzed the data: MLF BGD LJZ EEH ARC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLF BGD LJZ EEH ARC TGJ AFS. Wrote the paper: MLF BGD LJZ EEH ARC TGJ AFS.