About the Authors

Chih-Lin Wei

weic@tamug.edu

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Gilbert T. Rowe

Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Elva Escobar-Briones

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F., México

Antje Boetius

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Thomas Soltwedel

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

M. Julian Caley

Affiliation Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Yousria Soliman

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Falk Huettmann

Affiliation Biology and Wildlife Department, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Fangyuan Qu

Affiliations Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of Qingdao, Qingdao, China

Zishan Yu

Affiliation College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of Qingdao, Qingdao, China

C. Roland Pitcher

Affiliation CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Cleveland, Queensland, Australia

Richard L. Haedrich

Affiliation Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Mary K. Wicksten

Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Michael A. Rex

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

Jeffrey G. Baguley

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Jyotsna Sharma

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Roberto Danovaro

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Ian R. MacDonald

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Clifton C. Nunnally

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jody W. Deming

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Paul Montagna

Affiliation Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America

Mélanie Lévesque

Affiliation Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Jan Marcin Weslawski

Affiliation Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland

Maria Wlodarska-Kowalczuk

Affiliation Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland

Baban S. Ingole

Affiliation National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India

Brian J. Bett

Affiliation National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

David S. M. Billett

Affiliation National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Andrew Yool

Affiliation National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Bodil A. Bluhm

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

Katrin Iken

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

Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy

Affiliation Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLW GTR EEB. Analyzed the data: CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLW GTR EEB AB TS MJC YS FH FQ ZY CRP RLH MKW MAR JGB JS RD IRM CCN JWD PM ML JMW MWK BSI BJB DSMB AY BAB KI BEN. Wrote the paper: CLW GTR.