Evaluating protected area effectiveness using bird lists in the Australian Wet Tropics

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The authors wish to acknowledge Tara Martin for review, Peter Vesk and Peter Baxter for code analytical advice and review, Tara Martin, Luke Shoo, Ian Craigie and Marc Hockings for review, Bill Venables for code and analytical advice, Kerrie Mengerson and David Rohde for their sage advice regarding Bayesian methods. We also wish to acknowledge the work of countless volunteer citizen scientists who have informed this work through their love of birds, and BirdLife Australia in compiling the Bird Atlas. HPP and MB were supported by National Environmental Research program funding. We also thank two anonymous editors, and associate editor Mathieu Rouget for their invaluable comments.