About the Authors
- Daniel Bourgault
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Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Bourgault, Frédéric Cyr
* E-mail: daniel_bourgault@uqar.ca
Affiliation Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec, Canada
- Frédéric Cyr
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Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Bourgault, Frédéric Cyr
Affiliation Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DB FC. Performed the experiments: DB FC. Analyzed the data: DB FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB FC. Wrote the paper: DB FC. Participated in numerous exchanges (emails and in-person) with the authors of Lefort et al since the Spring of 2012: DB FC. Triplicated the model results presented in Fig 1b with two other independent models to make sure we did not make any error ourselves: DB FC.