About the Authors

Erin O. Sills

sills@ncsu.edu (ES); alex.pfaff@duke.edu (AP)

Affiliations Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America, IMAZON, Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, Belém, Brazil

Diego Herrera

Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

A. Justin Kirkpatrick

Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Amintas Brandão Jr.

Affiliation IMAZON, Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, Belém, Brazil

Rebecca Dickson

Affiliation TerraCarbon LLC., Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Simon Hall

Affiliation National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Subhrendu Pattanayak

Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

David Shoch

Affiliation TerraCarbon LLC., Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Mariana Vedoveto

Affiliation School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Luisa Young

Affiliation Geography Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Alexander Pfaff

sills@ncsu.edu (ES); alex.pfaff@duke.edu (AP)

Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

RD and DS are employees of and ES, DH, JK, SH, SP, LY, and AP have been consultants for TerraCarbon LLC. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES AP SP. Analyzed the data: ES DH AK RD LY SP AP. Wrote the paper: ES AP SH MV AK DS SP AB.