About the Authors

Gunnar Brandt

gunnar.brandt@zmt-bremen.de

Affiliation Systems Ecology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany

Agostino Merico

Affiliations Systems Ecology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany, School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Björn Vollan

Affiliations Institutional & Behavioural Economics, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany, Institute of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Achim Schlüter

Affiliations Institutional & Behavioural Economics, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB AM. Performed the experiments: GB. Analyzed the data: GB AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB. Wrote the paper: GB AM BV AS.