About the Authors

Juliano Calil

jcalil@ucsc.edu

Current Address: Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Michael W. Beck

Affiliation Global Marine Team, The Nature Conservancy, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Mary Gleason

Affiliation California Chapter, The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Matthew Merrifield

Affiliation California Chapter, The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kirk Klausmeyer

Affiliation California Chapter, The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sarah Newkirk

Affiliation California Chapter, The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC SN. Performed the experiments: JC. Analyzed the data: JC SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC MM KK. Wrote the paper: JC SN MG MWB.