About the Authors

Yan X. Ow

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan X. Ow, Sven Uthicke, Catherine J. Collier

yan.ow@my.jcu.edu.au

Affiliations College of Marine and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townville, Queensland, Australia, Experimental Marine Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Sven Uthicke

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan X. Ow, Sven Uthicke, Catherine J. Collier

Affiliation Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townville, Queensland, Australia

Catherine J. Collier

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan X. Ow, Sven Uthicke, Catherine J. Collier

Affiliations College of Marine and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Centre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO SU CC. Performed the experiments: YO. Analyzed the data: YO SU CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SU CC. Wrote the paper: YO SU CC.