About the Authors

Ricardo Martínez-García

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Carey D. Nadell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juan.bonachela@rutgers.edu (JAB); carey.d.nadell@dartmouth.edu (CDN)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Raimo Hartmann

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Knut Drescher

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, Department of Physics, Phillips-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Juan A. Bonachela

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juan.bonachela@rutgers.edu (JAB); carey.d.nadell@dartmouth.edu (CDN)

Affiliations Marine Population Modeling Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.