About the Authors

Octavio Aburto-Oropeza

maburto@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Brad Erisman

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Grantly R. Galland

Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ismael Mascareñas-Osorio

Affiliation Centro para la Biodiversidad Marina y la Conservación, La Paz, BCS, Mexico

Enric Sala

Affiliations National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CSIC), Blanes, Spain

Exequiel Ezcurra

Affiliation UC-MEXUS, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OA-O BE ES. Performed the experiments: OA-O BE GRG IM-O ES. Analyzed the data: OA-O IM-O EE. Wrote the paper: OA-O BE GRG ES EE.