About the Authors

Kenneth Meland

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth Meland, Jan Mees, Megan Porter, Karl J. Wittmann

kenneth.meland@bio.uib.no

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Jan Mees

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth Meland, Jan Mees, Megan Porter, Karl J. Wittmann

Affiliation Flanders Marine Institute and Ghent University, Ostend, Belgium

Megan Porter

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth Meland, Jan Mees, Megan Porter, Karl J. Wittmann

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Karl J. Wittmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth Meland, Jan Mees, Megan Porter, Karl J. Wittmann

Affiliation Medizinische Universität Wien, Institut für Umwelthygiene, Abteilung Ökotoxikologie, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: KM JM MP KJW.