About the Authors

Renaud Berlemont

Renaud.berlemont@csulb.edu

Affiliation Dept. of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, California, United States of America

Adam C. Martiny

Affiliations Dept. of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB ACM. Performed the experiments: RB. Analyzed the data: RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB ACM. Wrote the paper: RB ACM.