About the Authors

Linwood Pendleton

Contributed equally to this work with: Linwood Pendleton, Adrien Comte

linwood.pendleton@duke.edu

Affiliation Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UMR6308 AMURE, IUEM, Plouzané, France

Adrien Comte

Contributed equally to this work with: Linwood Pendleton, Adrien Comte

Affiliation Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UMR6308 AMURE, IUEM, Plouzané, France

Chris Langdon

Affiliation RSMAS/MBE, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Julia A. Ekstrom

Affiliation University of California Davis, Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy, Davis, California, United States of America

Sarah R. Cooley

Affiliation Ocean Conservancy, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Lisa Suatoni

Affiliation Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael W. Beck

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy and the University of California, Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Luke M. Brander

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lauretta Burke

Affiliation World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Josh E. Cinner

Affiliation James Cook University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Townsville, Australia

Carolyn Doherty

Affiliation Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter E. T. Edwards

Affiliation Coral Reef Conservation Program, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Dwight Gledhill

Affiliation Ocean Acidification Program, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Li-Qing Jiang

Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ruben J. van Hooidonk

Affiliations NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Louise Teh

Affiliation Institute for Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

George G. Waldbusser

Affiliation Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Jessica Ritter

Affiliation National Wildlife Foundation, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LP AC CL JE SC LS MB LMB LB JC PE DG RvH JR. Data curation: AC. Formal analysis: LP AC CL. Funding acquisition: LP SC LS. Investigation: LP AC CL LJ LT LB. Methodology: LP AC CL JE SC LS MB LMB LB JC CD PE DG LJ RvH LT GW JR. Project administration: LP. Resources: LMB RvH LT LJ. Supervision: LP. Validation: LP AC CL JE SC LS MB LMB LB JC CD PE DG LJ RvH LT GW JR. Visualization: LP AC. Writing – original draft: LP AC CL JE SC LS JC GW. Writing – review & editing: LP AC CL JE SC LS MB LMB PE DG LJ RvH LT GW.