About the Authors

Daniel Patón

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Patón, José Carlos García-Gómez

Roles Investigation

dpaton@unex.es (DP); jcgarcia@us.es (JCGG)

Affiliation Área de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

José Carlos García-Gómez

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Patón, José Carlos García-Gómez

Roles Investigation

dpaton@unex.es (DP); jcgarcia@us.es (JCGG)

Affiliation Laboratorio Biología Marina, Seville Aquarium R + D + I Biological Research Area, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain / Marine Biology Station of the Strait, Ceuta, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. In fact, the technological solutions implemented here have been produced exclusively under research guidelines. The authors do not have any shareholding in any composting company, nor do they charge any subsidies for the removal of the invasive algae. There are also no political or ideological interests that could affect the research.