About the Authors

Coral A. Wolf

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

coral.wolf@islandconservation.org

Current address: Island Conservation, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Hillary S. Young

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Kelly M. Zilliacus

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Alexander S. Wegmann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: The Nature Conservancy, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Affiliation Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Matthew McKown

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Conservation Metrics, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Nick D. Holmes

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Island Conservation, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Bernie R. Tershy

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Rodolfo Dirzo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Stefan Kropidlowski

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US Fish & Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Donald A. Croll

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Hillary Young and Rodolfo Dirzo received funding to support (2007) field work at Palmyra Atoll by the commercial funder, National Geographic. HY and RD do not have any financial or non-financial competing interests as a result of this award. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.