About the Authors

Paolo Guidetti

guidetti@unice.fr

Affiliations Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Faculté des Sciences, EA 4228 ECOMERS, Nice, France, CoNISMa, Rome, Italy

Pasquale Baiata

Affiliation Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Faculté des Sciences, EA 4228 ECOMERS, Nice, France

Enric Ballesteros

Affiliation Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Accés Cala Sant Francesc, Blanes, Spain

Antonio Di Franco

Affiliations Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Faculté des Sciences, EA 4228 ECOMERS, Nice, France, CoNISMa, Rome, Italy

Bernat Hereu

Affiliation Department of Ecology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Enrique Macpherson

Affiliation Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Accés Cala Sant Francesc, Blanes, Spain

Fiorenza Micheli

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

Antonio Pais

Affiliation Laboratorio di Acquacoltura e Gestione delle Risorse Acquatiche, Sezione di Scienze Zootecniche, Dipartimento di Agraria, Università di Sassari, Italy

Pieraugusto Panzalis

Affiliation Marine Protected Area of Tavolara-Punta Coda Cavallo, Olbia, Italy

Andrew A. Rosenberg

Affiliation Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mikel Zabala

Affiliation Department of Ecology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Enric Sala

Affiliations Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Accés Cala Sant Francesc, Blanes, Spain, National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG FM ES. Performed the experiments: PG AdF EB BH EM FM AP PP MZ ES. Analyzed the data: PG PB AdF ES. Wrote the paper: PG PB EB AdF BH EM FM AP PP AR MZ ES.