About the Authors

Steeves Buckland

stvsbuckland@yahoo.com

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, National Parks & Conservation Service, Reduit, Mauritius

Nik C. Cole

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey, Channel Islands, Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Vacoas, Mauritius

Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez

Affiliations Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Laura E. Gallagher

Affiliation National Parks & Conservation Service, Reduit, Mauritius

Sion M. Henshaw

Affiliation National Parks & Conservation Service, Reduit, Mauritius

Aurélien Besnard

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biogeographie et d'Ecologie des Vertébrés, Centre d'Ecologie Evolutive et Fonctionnelle, Montpellier, France

Rachel M. Tucker

Affiliations Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Vacoas, Mauritius, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Vishnu Bachraz

Affiliation National Parks & Conservation Service, Reduit, Mauritius

Kevin Ruhomaun

Affiliation National Parks & Conservation Service, Reduit, Mauritius

Stephen Harris

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB, NCC, SH, VB, LEG, SMH, KR, RMT. Analyzed the data: AB, BMM, SB, JAG, SDM. Wrote the manuscript: SB SH NCC. Data collection: SB NCC LEG SMH RMT.