About the Authors
- Fiorenza Micheli
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* E-mail: micheli@stanford.edu
Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America
- Noam Levin
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Affiliation Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
- Sylvaine Giakoumi
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Affiliations Institute of Marine Biological Resources, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Ag. Kosmas, Greece, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Stelios Katsanevakis
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Affiliation European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Water Resources Unit, Ispra, Italy
- Ameer Abdulla
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Affiliations ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, England
- Marta Coll
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Affiliation Institute of Marine Science, Marine Renewal Resources Department (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
- Simonetta Fraschetti
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Affiliation Laboratory of Marine Biology, Università del Salento, CoNISMa, Lecce, Italy
- Salit Kark
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Affiliations ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, The Biodiversity Research Group, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Drosos Koutsoubas
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Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, School of Environment, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, and National Marine Park of Zakynthos, Zakynthos, Greece
- Peter Mackelworth
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Affiliation Department of Conservation, The Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation, Veli Lošinj, Croatia
- Luigi Maiorano
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Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
- Hugh P. Possingham
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Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests: The Greek television channel SKAI (www.skai.gr/tv/) covered workshop participants' accommodation for this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Produced the tables and SOM: S. Katsanevakis SG. Produced the maps and performed the analyses: NL. Conceived and designed the experiments: FM NL SG S. Katsanevakis AA MC SF S. Kark DK PM LM HP. Wrote the paper: FM NL SG S. Katsanevakis AA MC SF S. Kark DK PM LM HP.