About the Authors

Ilaria Greco

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

ilaria.greco@unifi.it

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Lydia Beaudrot

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

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States of America, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States of America

Chris Sutherland

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

Affiliation Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Simone Tenan

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

Affiliation National Research Council, Institute of BioEconomy (CNR-IBE), San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Chia Hsieh

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States of America, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States of America

Daniel Gorczynski

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, United States of America

Douglas Sheil

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Kota Bogor, Jawa, Barat, Indonesia, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Jedediah Brodie

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Biological Sciences and Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula Montana, United States of America, Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia

Mohammad Firoz Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Aaranyak, 13, Tayab ali Byelane, Bishnu Rabha Path, Guwahati, Assam, India

Jorge Ahumada

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Rajan Amin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London, United Kingdom

Megan Baker-Watton

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Ramie Husneara Begum

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University (Diphu Campus), Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India

Francesco Bisi

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment Analysis and Management Unit, Guido Tosi Research Group, Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Insubria University, Varese, Italy

Robert Bitariho

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Kabale, Uganda

Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China

Elildo A. R. Carvalho Jr

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros (CENAP), Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Atibaia, SP, Brazil

Daniel Cornélis

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cirad, Université Montpellier, UR Forests & Societies, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Giacomo Cremonesi

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto Oikos E.T.S., Milano, Italy

Virgínia Londe de Camargos

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RPPN Estação Veracel, Eunápolis, Bahia, Brazil

Iariaella Elimanantsoa

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre ValBio, Ranomafana, Ifanadiana, Madagascar

Santiago Espinosa

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Adeline Fayolle

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cirad, Université Montpellier, UR Forests & Societies, Montpellier Cedex 5, France, Forest is Life, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium

Davy Fonteyn

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cirad, Université Montpellier, UR Forests & Societies, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Abishek Harihar

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Panthera, New York City, New York, United States of America, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, India

Harry Hilser

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The University of Exeter, Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Amory Building, Exeter, United Kingdom

Alys Granados

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Felidae Conservation Fund, Mill Valley California, United States of America

Patrick A. Jansen

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama

Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia

Caspian Johnson

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Field Conservation and Science, Bristol Zoological Society, Bristol, United Kingdom

Steig Johnson

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Dipankar Lahkar

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Aaranyak, 13, Tayab ali Byelane, Bishnu Rabha Path, Guwahati, Assam, India, Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University (Diphu Campus), Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India

Marcela Guimarães Moreira Lima

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Biogeografia da Conservação e Macroecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil

Matthew Scott Luskin

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Marcelo Magioli

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros (CENAP), Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Atibaia, SP, Brazil, Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, Brazil, Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação (LAEC), Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirã Preto, Brazil

Emanuel H. Martin

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Management, College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, Kibosho Mashariki, Moshi, Tanzania

Adriano Martinoli

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment Analysis and Management Unit, Guido Tosi Research Group, Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Insubria University, Varese, Italy

Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros (CENAP), Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Atibaia, SP, Brazil

Badru Mugerwa

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ecological Dynamics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany, Faculty VI–Planning Building Environment, Institute of Ecology, Technische Universität Berlinn, Berlin, Germany

Lain E. Pardo

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Panthera, New York City, New York, United States of America, School of Natural Resource Management, George Campus, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, Grupo de Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Julia Salvador

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Ecology and Evolution Program, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Fernanda Santos

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Mastozoologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém Pará, Brazil

Cédric Vermeulen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forest is Life, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium

Patricia C. Wright

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre ValBio, Ranomafana, Ifanadiana, Madagascar, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Francesco Rovero

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

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, MUSE-Museo delle Scienze, Trento, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.