About the Authors

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

lbenedetti@biologia.unipi.it

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, CoNISMa (National Interuniversity Consortium of Marine Sciences), Pisa, Italy

Katrin Iken

Affiliation School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Brenda Konar

Affiliation School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Juan Cruz-Motta

Affiliation Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Centro de Biodiversidad Marina, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

Ann Knowlton

Affiliation School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Gerhard Pohle

Affiliation Atlantic Reference Centre, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, Canada

Alberto Castelli

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, CoNISMa (National Interuniversity Consortium of Marine Sciences), Pisa, Italy

Laura Tamburello

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, CoNISMa (National Interuniversity Consortium of Marine Sciences), Pisa, Italy

Angela Mead

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Tom Trott

Affiliation Department of Biology, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patricia Miloslavich

Affiliation Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Centro de Biodiversidad Marina, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

Melisa Wong

Affiliation Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Yoshihisa Shirayama

Affiliation Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University, Shirahama, Japan

Claudio Lardicci

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, CoNISMa (National Interuniversity Consortium of Marine Sciences), Pisa, Italy

Gabriela Palomo

Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Costeros, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Elena Maggi

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, CoNISMa (National Interuniversity Consortium of Marine Sciences), Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LBC KI BK PM YS. Performed the experiments: KI BK JJCM ALK GP LT AM TT PM MW YS GP EM. Analyzed the data: LBC AC LT CL. Wrote the paper: LBC. Verified the data for taxonomic consistency: AC CL.