About the Authors

Daniel O. B. Jones

dj1@noc.ac.uk

Affiliation National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton, United Kingdom

Stefanie Kaiser

Affiliation Senckenberg am Meer, German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Andrew K. Sweetman

Affiliation The Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Craig R. Smith

Affiliation Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Lenaick Menot

Affiliation Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, Plouzané, France

Annemiek Vink

Affiliation Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources), Geozentrum Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Dwight Trueblood

Affiliation NOAA Office for Coastal Management, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States of America

Jens Greinert

Affiliations GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre For Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany

David S. M. Billett

Affiliation National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton, United Kingdom

Pedro Martinez Arbizu

Affiliation Senckenberg am Meer, German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Teresa Radziejewska

Affiliation Palaeoceanology Unit, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

Ravail Singh

Affiliation Senckenberg am Meer, German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Baban Ingole

Affiliation CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India

Tanja Stratmann

Affiliation NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, and Utrecht University, Yerseke, The Netherlands

Erik Simon-Lledó

Affiliations National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton, United Kingdom, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, European Way, Southampton, United Kingdom

Jennifer M. Durden

Affiliations National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton, United Kingdom, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, European Way, Southampton, United Kingdom

Malcolm R. Clark

Affiliation National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DJ. Data curation: DJ SK AS. Formal analysis: DJ SK. Funding acquisition: DJ. Investigation: DJ SK AS. Methodology: DJ. Resources: DJ SK LM AV DT JG PA TR RS BI TS. Software: DJ. Supervision: DJ. Validation: SK. Visualization: DJ. Writing – original draft: DJ SK AS. Writing – review & editing: DJ SK AS CS LM AV DT JG DB PA TR RS BI TS ES JD MC.