About the Authors

Israel Medina-Gómez

Contributed equally to this work with: Israel Medina-Gómez, Christopher J. Madden, Jorge Herrera-Silveira, Björn Kjerfve

imedgomez@gmail.com

Current address: Km. 6, Ant. Carr. a Progreso, Cordemex, C.P. 97310, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Affiliation Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Laboratorio de Producción Primaria, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Christopher J. Madden

Contributed equally to this work with: Israel Medina-Gómez, Christopher J. Madden, Jorge Herrera-Silveira, Björn Kjerfve

Affiliation South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America

Jorge Herrera-Silveira

Contributed equally to this work with: Israel Medina-Gómez, Christopher J. Madden, Jorge Herrera-Silveira, Björn Kjerfve

Affiliation Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Laboratorio de Producción Primaria, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Björn Kjerfve

Contributed equally to this work with: Israel Medina-Gómez, Christopher J. Madden, Jorge Herrera-Silveira, Björn Kjerfve

Affiliation American University of Sharjah, University City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

As the first author of this manuscript, I declare perceived financial competing interests with the funding source “The Nature Conservancy” that provided the grant to undertake field work for the research study that derived in this publication under review. No omit to say that the period of time when this financial support was disbursed (2007) and when the current manuscript was first submitted (2016) is outside the 5-year time frame typically applying to competing interest declaration.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IMG BK. Data curation: IMG. Formal analysis: IMG. Funding acquisition: IMG JHS. Investigation: IMG. Methodology: IMG JHS BK. Project administration: IMG JHS. Resources: IMG JHS BK. Software: IMG. Validation: IMG JHS. Visualization: IMG CJM JHS BK. Writing – original draft: IMG. Writing – review & editing: IMG CJM JHS BK.