About the Authors

Elisa Baldrighi

Affiliation Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), Ancona, Italy

Marc Lavaleye

Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, The Netherlands

Stefano Aliani

Affiliation Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), La Spezia, Italy

Alessandra Conversi

Affiliations Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), La Spezia, Italy, Marine Institute, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Elena Manini

e.manini@ismar.cnr.it

Affiliation Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), Ancona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB EM ML SA. Performed the experiments: EB EM ML. Analyzed the data: EB EM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB EM ML. Wrote the paper: EB EM ML SA AC.