About the Authors

Susanne H. Sokolow

ssokolow@stanford.edu

Affiliations Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America, Marine Science Institute, and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Chelsea L. Wood

Affiliations Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Isabel J. Jones

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

Scott J. Swartz

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

Melina Lopez

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

Michael H. Hsieh

Affiliations Children's National Health System, Washington, D.C., United States of America, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Biomedical Research Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kevin D. Lafferty

Affiliations Marine Science Institute, and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Western Ecological Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Armand M. Kuris

Affiliation Marine Science Institute, and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Chloe Rickards

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Giulio A. De Leo

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHS GADL CLW MHH. Performed the experiments: SHS IJJ SJS ML. Analyzed the data: SHS GADL CLW KDL CR. Wrote the paper: SHS GADL CLW SJS AMK KDL ML IJJ MHH.