About the Authors

Camilo Mora

moracamilo@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Octavio Aburto-Oropeza

Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Arturo Ayala Bocos

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, México

Paula M. Ayotte

Affiliations University of Hawaii Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Stuart Banks

Affiliation Marine Research and Conservation, Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Andrew G. Bauman

Affiliations Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Maria Beger

Affiliation Commonwealth Centre for Applied Environmental Decision Analysis, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Sandra Bessudo

Affiliation Fundación Malpelo y Otros Ecosistemas Marinos, Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

David J. Booth

Affiliation School of the Environment, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Eran Brokovich

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Andrew Brooks

Affiliation Coastal Research Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Pascale Chabanet

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Reunion Island, France

Joshua E. Cinner

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Jorge Cortés

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Juan J. Cruz-Motta

Affiliation Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela

Amilcar Cupul Magaña

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, México

Edward E. DeMartini

Affiliations Fisheries Research and Monitoring Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States of America

Graham J. Edgar

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

David A. Feary

Affiliations Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, School of the Environment, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sebastian C. A. Ferse

Affiliation Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany

Alan M. Friedlander

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Kevin J. Gaston

Affiliation Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Charlotte Gough

Affiliation Blue Ventures, London, United Kingdom

Nicholas A. J. Graham

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Alison Green

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Hector Guzman

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama

Marah Hardt

Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michel Kulbicki

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, c/o Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France

Yves Letourneur

Affiliations Laboratoire Insulaire du Vivant et de L'environnement, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa Cedex, New Caledonia, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Marine, Université de La Réunion, Saint-Denis Messageries, France

Andres López Pérez

Affiliation Instituto de Recursos, Universidad del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico

Michel Loreau

Affiliation Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Yossi Loya

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Camilo Martinez

Affiliation Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo, Quito, Ecuador

Ismael Mascareñas-Osorio

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Mexico

Tau Morove

Affiliation Papua New Guinea Marine Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Kavieng, Papua New Guinea

Marc-Olivier Nadon

Affiliations University of Hawaii Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Yohei Nakamura

Affiliation Graduate School of Kuroshio Science, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan

Gustavo Paredes

Affiliation Centro para la Biodiversidad Marina y Conservación del Golfo de California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Nicholas V. C. Polunin

Affiliation Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Morgan S. Pratchett

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Héctor Reyes Bonilla

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, México

Fernando Rivera

Affiliation Instituto Nazca de Investigaciones Marinas, Quito, Ecuador

Enric Sala

Affiliations Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Blanes, Spain, National Geographic Society, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Stuart A. Sandin

Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

German Soler

Affiliation Fundación Malpelo y Otros Ecosistemas Marinos, Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

Rick Stuart-Smith

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

Emmanuel Tessier

Affiliation Réserve Naturelle Marine de La Réunion, Reunion Island, France

Derek P. Tittensor

Affiliations Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Microsoft Research Computational Science Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mark Tupper

Affiliation The WorldFish Center, Penang, Malaysia

Paolo Usseglio

Affiliations Institute for Water, Environment and Health, United Nations University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Laurent Vigliola

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Nouméa Cedex, New Caledonia

Laurent Wantiez

Affiliations Laboratoire Insulaire du Vivant et de L'environnement, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa Cedex, New Caledonia, Aquarium des Lagons, Nouméa Cedex, New Caledonia

Ivor Williams

Affiliations University of Hawaii Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Shaun K. Wilson

Affiliation Marine Science Program, Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, Western Australia, Australia

Fernando A. Zapata

Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: C Mora KJG. Performed the experiments: C Mora. Analyzed the data: C Mora ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C Mora OAO AAB PMA S Banks AGB MB S Bessudo DJB EB AB PC JEC JC JJCM ACM EED GJE DAF SCAF AMF CG NAG AG HMG MH MK Y Letourneur ALP Y Loya C Martinez IMO TM MON YN GP NVCP MSP HRB FR ES SAS GS RSS ET DPT MT PU LV LW IW SKW FAZ. Wrote the paper: C Mora OAO AAB PMA S Banks AGB MB S Bessudo DJB EB AB PC JEC JC JJCM ACM EED GJE DAF SCAF AMF KJG CG NAG AG HMG MH MK Y Letourneur ALP ML Y Loya C Martinez IMO TM MON YN GP NVCP MSP HRB FR ES SAS GS RSS ET DPT MT PU LV LW IW SKW FAZ.