About the Authors

Carolina Bruno de Sousa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Cymon J. Cox

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Luís Brito

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Maria Madalena Pavão

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Hugo Pereira

Roles Resources

Affiliation Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Ana Ferreira

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Universidade dos Açores, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal

Catarina Ginja

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal

Lenea Campino

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Ricardo Bermejo

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Departamento de Biología- Área de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain, Irish Seaweed Research Group & Earth and Ocean Sciences Department, Ryan Institute and School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Manuela Parente

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation CIBIO-Açores, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Pólo dos Açores, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

João Varela

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jvarela@ualg.pt

Affiliation Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.