About the Authors

Kathryn T. Stevenson

ktate@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Nils Peterson

Affiliation Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Howard D. Bondell

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Angela G. Mertig

Affiliation Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States of America

Susan E. Moore

Affiliation Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Secured funding: MNP KTS SEM. Conceived and designed the experiments: KTS MNP HDB AGM SEM. Performed the experiments: KTS MNP. Analyzed the data: KTS MNP HDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KTS MNP HDB. Wrote the paper: KTS MNP HDB AGM SEM.