Strengthen causal models for better conservation outcomes for human well-being

• Samantha H. Cheng ,

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

  * E-mail: scheng@amnh.org

  Affiliations National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-6310

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• Madeleine C. McKinnon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bright Impact, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Yuta J. Masuda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Science, The Nature Conservancy, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Ruth Garside,

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

  Affiliation European Centre for Environment and Human Health, Truro, England, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1649-4773

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• Kelly W. Jones,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Daniel C. Miller,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States of America

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• Andrew S. Pullin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Evidence-based Conservation, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

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• William J. Sutherland,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Caitlin Augustin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation DataKind, New York, NY, United States of America

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• David A. Gill,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States of America, Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America, Duke University Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Supin Wongbusarakum,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, United States of America

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• David Wilkie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, United States of America

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