About the Authors

Xiaoli Jing

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, United States of America, Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

Senjie Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

senjie.lin@uconn.edu

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, United States of America

Huan Zhang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, United States of America

Claudia Koerting

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, United States of America

Zhigang Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of Marine Chemical Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao, China

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The co-author Senjie Lin is an Academic Editor of PloSONE, but this does not alter the author's adherence to all the PloSONE policies on sharing data and materials.