About the Authors

Roger Beeden

roger.beeden@gbrmpa.gov.au

Affiliations Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia, Colleges of Business, Law and Governance and Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia

Jeffrey Maynard

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, United States of America, Laboratories d’Excellence <> USR 3278 CNRS—EPHE, CRIOBE, Papetoai, Moorea, Polynésie Francaise

Marjetta Puotinen

Affiliations School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia

Paul Marshall

Affiliation Reef Ecologic, 10 Mt. Clifton Court, Alligator Creek, QLD, 4814, Australia

Jen Dryden

Affiliation Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia

Jeremy Goldberg

Affiliations Colleges of Business, Law and Governance and Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia, CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia

Gareth Williams

Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, 92037, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB JM MP PM JD JG GW. Performed the experiments: RB JM PM JD JG. Analyzed the data: RB JM MP GW. Wrote the paper: RB JM MP PM JD JG GW.