About the Authors

Cristina Gonzáles-Andrés

cristinacap80@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, Statistical Modeling Ecology Group (SMEG), Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Universitat de València. Valencia, Spain

Priscila F. M. Lopes

Affiliation Fisheries Ecology, Management and Economics Unit–FEME, Ecology Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

Jorge Cortés

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica

José Luis Sánchez-Lizaso

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Maria Grazia Pennino

Affiliations Statistical Modeling Ecology Group (SMEG), Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Universitat de València. Valencia, Spain, Fisheries Ecology, Management and Economics Unit–FEME, Ecology Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CGA MGP. Data curation: CGA MGP. Formal analysis: CGA MGP. Funding acquisition: JLSL. Investigation: CGA MGP. Methodology: CGA MGP. Software: CGA MGP. Supervision: MGP PFML JC JLSL. Validation: CGA MGP. Visualization: MGP PFML JC JLSL. Writing – original draft: CGA MGP. Writing – review & editing: CGA MGP PFML JC JLSL.