About the Authors

Pierre D. Thiriet

pierre.d.thiriet@gmail.com

Affiliations Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Nice, France, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7208 BOREA, Station Marine de Dinard—CRESCO, Dinard, France

Antonio Di Franco

Affiliations Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Nice, France, CRIOBE, USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, Perpignan, France

Adrien Cheminée

Affiliations Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Nice, France, UMR 5110 CNRS/UPVD—CEFREM, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France

Paolo Guidetti

Affiliation Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Nice, France

Olivier Bianchimani

Affiliation Septentrion Environnement, Marseille, France

Solène Basthard-Bogain

Affiliation Septentrion Environnement, Marseille, France

Jean-Michel Cottalorda

Affiliation Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Nice, France

Hazel Arceo

Affiliations Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Nice, France, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

Joan Moranta

Affiliations Estación de Investigación Jaume Ferrer, Maó, Menorca, Illes Balears, España, Instituto Español de Ocenografía (IEO), Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears, Moll de Ponent s/n, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Pierre Lejeune

Affiliation STARESO, Station de Recherches Océanographiques et Sous-Marines, Calvi, France

Patrice Francour

Affiliation Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Nice, France

Luisa Mangialajo

Affiliations Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Nice, France, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, INSU-CNRS, UMR 7093, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche sur mer, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PT AC PG PF LM. Formal analysis: PT ADF AC PG PF LM. Funding acquisition: LM AC PF. Investigation: PT AC OB SBB JMC HA JM PL. Methodology: PT AC PG PF LM. Project administration: PT PF LM. Resources: PT AC PG PF LM. Supervision: PF LM. Writing – original draft: PT ADF AC PG OB SBB JMC HA JM PL PF LM. Writing – review & editing: PT ADF AC PG PF LM.