About the Authors

Núria Teixidó

nteixido@icm.csic.es

Affiliations Ecology Department, Biology Faculty, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Joaquim Garrabou

Affiliation Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Jean-George Harmelin

Affiliation Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Université de la Mediterranée, CNRS - UMR 6540 DIMAR, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JGH JG NT. Performed the experiments: JGH JG NT. Analyzed the data: NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NT. Wrote the paper: NT JGH JG.