About the Authors

Siddharth Narayan

sid.narayan@gmail.com

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Michael W. Beck

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy / University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Borja G. Reguero

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, UC Santa Cruz / The Nature Conservancy, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Iñigo J. Losada

Affiliation Instituto de Hidraulica Ambiental, ETSI de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Bregje van Wesenbeeck

Affiliation Unit for Marine and Coastal Systems, Deltares / Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Nigel Pontee

Affiliation Coastal Planning and Engineering, CH2M HILL / University of Southampton, Swindon, United Kingdom

James N. Sanchirico

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jane Carter Ingram

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society / Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Glenn-Marie Lange

Affiliation Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, The World Bank, Washington, DC, United States of America

Kelly A. Burks-Copes

Affiliation Environmental Laboratory, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

We note that one author is employed by a commercial company, Deltares, Rotterdamsweg 185, 2629HD Delft, The Netherlands. We declare that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN MWB JCI. Performed the experiments: SN MWB BGR. Analyzed the data: SN MWB BGR BvW IJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SN MWB IJL JNS. Wrote the paper: SN MWB IJL BvW BGR NP JCI GML JNS KBC.