About the Authors

Fabrice Pernet

fabrice.pernet@ifremer.fr

Affiliations Ifremer, Laboratoire Environnement Ressource du Languedoc Roussillon, Bd Jean Monnet, Sète, France, UMR LEMAR Ifremer/CNRS/UBO/IRD, Technopole de Brest-Iroise, Plouzané, France

Franck Lagarde

Affiliation Ifremer, Laboratoire Environnement Ressource du Languedoc Roussillon, Bd Jean Monnet, Sète, France

Nicolas Jeannée

Affiliation Geovariances, Avon, France

Gaetan Daigle

Affiliation Université Laval, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, Québec, Québec, Canada

Jean Barret

Affiliation Ifremer, Laboratoire Environnement Ressource du Languedoc Roussillon, Bd Jean Monnet, Sète, France

Patrik Le Gall

Affiliation Ifremer, Laboratoire Environnement Ressource du Languedoc Roussillon, Bd Jean Monnet, Sète, France

Claudie Quere

Affiliation UMR LEMAR Ifremer/CNRS/UBO/IRD, Technopole de Brest-Iroise, Plouzané, France

Emmanuelle Roque D’orbcastel

Affiliation Ifremer, Laboratoire Environnement Ressource du Languedoc Roussillon, Bd Jean Monnet, Sète, France

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests. Nicolas Jeannée is an employee of Géovariances. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FP FL NJ. Performed the experiments: FP FL JB PLG CQ. Analyzed the data: FP FL NJ GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FP ER. Wrote the paper: FP FL ER.