About the Authors

Stacy E. Aguilera

s.aguilera1@umiami.edu

Affiliation Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, University of Miami, 1365 Memorial Drive, Ungar Building 230M, Coral Gables, FL 33124, United States of America

Jennifer Cole

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, 120 Oceanview Blvd., Pacific Grove, CA 93950, United States of America

Elena M. Finkbeiner

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, 120 Oceanview Blvd., Pacific Grove, CA 93950, United States of America

Elodie Le Cornu

Affiliation Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 99 Pacific Street, Suite 555E, Monterey, CA 93940, United States of America

Natalie C. Ban

Affiliation School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada

Mark H. Carr

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Long Marine Lab, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, United States of America

Joshua E. Cinner

Affiliation Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Queensland 4811, Australia

Larry B. Crowder

Affiliations Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, 120 Oceanview Blvd., Pacific Grove, CA 93950, United States of America, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 99 Pacific Street, Suite 555E, Monterey, CA 93940, United States of America

Stefan Gelcich

Affiliation Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES) & Centro de Conservacion Marina, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Chile

Christina C. Hicks

Affiliations Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 99 Pacific Street, Suite 555E, Monterey, CA 93940, United States of America, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Queensland 4811, Australia

John N. Kittinger

Affiliations Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 99 Pacific Street, Suite 555E, Monterey, CA 93940, United States of America, Conservation International, Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, 7192 Kalanianaole Hwy, Ste G-230, Honolulu, Hawaii 96825, United States of America

Rebecca Martone

Affiliation Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 99 Pacific Street, Suite 555E, Monterey, CA 93940, United States of America

Daniel Malone

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Long Marine Lab, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, United States of America

Carrie Pomeroy

Affiliation University of California Sea Grant Extension Program and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Center for Ocean Health, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, United States of America

Richard M. Starr

Affiliation University of California Sea Grant Extension Program, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, California 95039, United States of America

Sanah Seram

Affiliation McGill School of Environment, McGill University, 3534 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7, Canada

Rachel Zuercher

Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Long Marine Lab, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, United States of America

Kenneth Broad

Affiliation Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, University of Miami, 1365 Memorial Drive, Ungar Building 230M, Coral Gables, FL 33124, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEA EMF ELC NCB MHC JEC LBC SG CCH JNK RM CP RMS KB. Performed the experiments: SEA JC EMF ELC CCH RM DM SS RZ. Analyzed the data: SEA JC EMF MHC CCH RM DM SS RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EMF MHC CCH RM DM CP. Wrote the paper: SEA JC EMF NCB LBC CCH JNK RM DM CP RMS RZ KB.