About the Authors

Marti J. Anderson

m.j.anderson@massey.ac.nz

Affiliation New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Massey University, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand

Nick Tolimieri

Affiliation Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Russell B. Millar

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conception and design of the work: MJA NT. Development of analysis method for distance-decay curve: RBM MJA. Analysis and interpretation of the data: MJA NT RBM. Access to data: NT. Writing of manuscript: MJA. Critical comments on the manuscript: NT RBM. Conceived and designed the experiments: MJA NT. Performed the experiments: MJA NT. Analyzed the data: MJA NT RBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJA NT RBM. Wrote the paper: MJA.