About the Authors

Bernat Hereu

hereu@ub.edu

Affiliation Departament d’Ecologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Cristina Linares

Affiliation Departament d’Ecologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Enric Sala

Affiliations National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Consejo Superior de Investigacions Cientificas, Blanes, Spain

Joaquim Garrabou

Affiliation Institut de Ciències del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigacions Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain

Antoni Garcia-Rubies

Affiliation Institut de Ciències del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigacions Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain

David Diaz

Affiliation Centre Oceanogràfic de Balears, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Mikel Zabala

Affiliation Departament d’Ecologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZ ES JG BH AG. Performed the experiments: BH CL ES JG AG DD MZ. Analyzed the data: BH CL AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BH CL ES JG AG DD MZ. Wrote the paper: BH ES CL JG MZ.