About the Authors

Kristin Kaschner

Kristin.Kaschner@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliation Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Lab, Institute of Zoology, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany

Derek P. Tittensor

Current address: United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Microsoft Research Computational Science Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Jonathan Ready

Affiliation Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, Universidade Federal do Pará – Campus de Bragança, Bragança, Pará, Brazil

Tim Gerrodette

Affiliation Protected Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Boris Worm

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK BW. Analyzed the data: KK DPT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK DPT JR TG. Wrote the paper: KK BW DPT JR TG.