About the Authors

Simone Vincenzi

simon.vincenz@gmail.com

Affiliations Center for Stock Assessment Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Marc Mangel

Affiliations Center for Stock Assessment Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Alain J. Crivelli

Affiliation Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, Arles, France

Stephan Munch

Affiliation Fisheries Ecology Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Hans J. Skaug

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV MM HJS SM AJC. Performed the experiments: SV HJS. Analyzed the data: SV AJC MM SM HJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV AJC MM SM HJS. Wrote the paper: SV AJC MM SM HJS.