About the Authors

Patricia Miloslavich

pmilos@usb.ve

Affiliation Departamento de Estudios Ambientales and Centro de Biodiversidad Marina, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela

Juan José Cruz-Motta

Affiliation Departamento de Estudios Ambientales and Centro de Biodiversidad Marina, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela

Eduardo Klein

Affiliation Departamento de Estudios Ambientales and Centro de Biodiversidad Marina, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela

Katrin Iken

Affiliation School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Vanessa Weinberger

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Brenda Konar

Affiliation School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Tom Trott

Affiliation Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gerhard Pohle

Affiliation The Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada

Gregorio Bigatti

Affiliation Centro Nacional Patagónico, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Pisa, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

Yoshihisa Shirayama

Affiliation Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan

Angela Mead

Affiliation University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Gabriela Palomo

Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecosistemas Costeros, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Manuel Ortiz

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Marinas, Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba

Judith Gobin

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Adriana Sardi

Affiliation Departamento de Estudios Ambientales and Centro de Biodiversidad Marina, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela

Juan Manuel Díaz

Affiliation Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Ann Knowlton

Affiliation School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

Melisa Wong

Affiliation Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ana C. Peralta

Affiliation Departamento de Estudios Ambientales and Centro de Biodiversidad Marina, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PM JJCM KI BK G. Pohle LBC YS. Performed the experiments: PM JJCM KI BK TT G. Pohle GB LBC YS AM G. Palomo MO JG AK MW ACP. Analyzed the data: PM JJCM EK VW AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PM JJCM KI BK TT GP G. Pohle GB LBC YS AM G. Palomo MO JG MW. Wrote the paper: PM JJCM KI VW BK TT GP G. Pohle GB LBS AM G. Palomo JG JMD MW.