About the Authors

Salvador Herrando-Pérez

salvador.herrando-perez@adelaide.edu.au

Affiliations The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Steven Delean

Affiliation The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Barry W. Brook

Affiliation The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Phillip Cassey

Affiliation The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Corey J. A. Bradshaw

Affiliation The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: SHP SD PC. Collected the dataset: SHP BWB CJAB. Conceived and designed the statistical approach: SHP SD BWB PC CJAB. Wrote the first draft of the paper: SHP. Contributed to revisions of early and final drafts: SHP SD BWB PC CJAB.