About the Authors

Martin J. Westgate

martin.westgate@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Ben C. Scheele

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Karen Ikin

Affiliations Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Anke Maria Hoefer

Affiliation ACT and Region Frogwatch, Ginninderra Catchment Group, Canberra, ACT, 2615, Australia

R. Matthew Beaty

Affiliation CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Murray Evans

Affiliation Environment and Planning Directorate, ACT Government, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Will Osborne

Affiliation Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

David Hunter

Affiliation NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Queanbeyan, NSW, 2620, Australia

Laura Rayner

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

Don A. Driscoll

Affiliations ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood Campus, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMH ME WO. Analyzed the data: MJW RMB KI LR. Wrote the paper: MJW BCS KI AMH RMB ME WO DH LR DAD.