About the Authors

Fiorenza Micheli

micheli@stanford.edu

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

Noam Levin

Affiliation Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

Sylvaine Giakoumi

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

Affiliation European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Water Resources Unit, Ispra, Italy

Ameer Abdulla

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

Affiliation Institute of Marine Science, Marine Renewal Resources Department (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Simonetta Fraschetti

Affiliation Laboratory of Marine Biology, Università del Salento, CoNISMa, Lecce, Italy

Salit Kark

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

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, School of Environment, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, and National Marine Park of Zakynthos, Zakynthos, Greece

Peter Mackelworth

Affiliation Department of Conservation, The Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation, Veli Lošinj, Croatia

Luigi Maiorano

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Hugh P. Possingham

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.