About the Authors

Kerstin M. Brauneder

Contributed equally to this work with: Kerstin M. Brauneder, Chloe Montes, Sharon E. Brooks

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Chloe Montes

Contributed equally to this work with: Kerstin M. Brauneder, Chloe Montes, Sharon E. Brooks

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Simon Blyth

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leon Bennun

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations The Biodiversity Consultancy, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stuart H. M. Butchart

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, BirdLife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michael Hoffmann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Conservation Programmes, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom

Neil D. Burgess

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Annabelle Cuttelod

Roles Writing – review & editing

Current address: Chemin des Bluets 8, Pully, Switzerland

Affiliation IUCN Global Species Programme, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Matt I. Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Val Kapos

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

John Pilgrim

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Biodiversity Consultancy, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Melissa J. Tolley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Emma C. Underwood

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Lauren V. Weatherdon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sharon E. Brooks

Contributed equally to this work with: Kerstin M. Brauneder, Chloe Montes, Sharon E. Brooks

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Sharon.brooks@unep-wcmc.org

Affiliation UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors LB and JP are employed by The Biodiversity Consultancy – a commercial enterprise, and the authors KMB, CM, SB, MIJ, MJT, LVW and SEB are employed by WCMC which receives some funding from commercial companies via the Proteus partnership. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.