About the Authors

Marleen Stuhr

marleen.stuhr@leibniz-zmt.de

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry and Geology, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

Claire E. Reymond

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry and Geology, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

Vera Rieder

Affiliation Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

Pamela Hallock

Affiliation College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

Jörg Rahnenführer

Affiliation Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

Hildegard Westphal

Affiliations Department of Biogeochemistry and Geology, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany, Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Michal Kucera

Affiliation MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MS CR MK. Formal analysis: MS VR JR. Funding acquisition: HW JR. Investigation: MS. Methodology: MS. Project administration: MS. Resources: MS HW MK PH. Visualization: MS VR. Writing – original draft: MS. Writing – review & editing: MS CR MK PH HW VR JR.