About the Authors

Trina Rytwinski

trytwinski@hotmail.com

Affiliation Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada

Kylie Soanes

Current address: Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub, National Environmental Science Programme, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, C/- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia

Jochen A. G. Jaeger

Affiliation Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University Montreal, 1455 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lenore Fahrig

Affiliation Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada

C. Scott Findlay

Affiliation Institute of the Environment & Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jeff Houlahan

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick at Saint John, Saint John, 550, New Brunswick, Canada

Rodney van der Ree

Affiliation Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, C/- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia

Edgar A van der Grift

Affiliation Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TR KS JAGJ LF CSF JH RvdR EAvdG. Data curation: TR KS JAGJ CSF EAvdG. Formal analysis: TR KS JAGJ CSF EAvdG. Funding acquisition: LF RvdR EAvdG. Methodology: TR KS JAGJ LF CSF JH RvdR EAvdG. Project administration: TR EAvdG. Software: TR. Supervision: EAvdG. Validation: TR KS JAGJ LF CSF JH RvdR EAvdG. Visualization: TR. Writing – original draft: TR. Writing – review & editing: TR KS JAGJ LF CSF JH RvdR EAvdG.