About the Authors

Maria Grazia Pennino

grazia.pennino@mu.ieo.es

Affiliations Statistical Modeling Ecology Group (SMEG), Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia, San Pedro del Pinatar, Murcia, Spain

Antonella Arcangeli

Affiliation ISPRA Department, for Nature Conservation, Rome, Italy

Vinícius Prado Fonseca

Affiliations Statistical Modeling Ecology Group (SMEG), Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Ilaria Campana

Affiliations Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, Ichthyogenic Experimental Marine Center (CISMAR), Tuscia University, Tarquinia, Viterbo, Italy, Accademia del Leviatano, Rome, Italy

Graham J. Pierce

Affiliations Oceanlab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Newburgh Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom, Departamento de Biologia and CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), Vigo, Spain

Andrea Rotta

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Jose Maria Bellido

Affiliations Statistical Modeling Ecology Group (SMEG), Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia, San Pedro del Pinatar, Murcia, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MGP. Data curation: MGP AA IC. Formal analysis: MGP VPF. Funding acquisition: AR. Investigation: MGP AR. Methodology: MGP JMB VPF. Project administration: AR MGP. Resources: MGP AR JMB IC AA. Software: MGP VPF JMB. Supervision: MGP JMB AA IC. Validation: MGP GJP. Visualization: MGP IC AA VPF JMB GJP. Writing – original draft: MGP GJP AA IC. Writing – review & editing: MGP AA IC JMB GJP.