About the Authors

Anna R. Armitage

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna R. Armitage, Wesley E. Highfield

armitaga@tamug.edu

Affiliation Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Wesley E. Highfield

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna R. Armitage, Wesley E. Highfield

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Samuel D. Brody

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Patrick Louchouarn

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARA WEH SDB PL. Performed the experiments: WEH. Analyzed the data: ARA WEH. Wrote the paper: ARA WEH SDB PL.