About the Authors

Anna M. Magera

ammagera@gmail.com

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

Joanna E. Mills Flemming

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Kristin Kaschner

Affiliations Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, CESAB (Centre de Synthèse et d′Analyse sur la Biodiversité), Immeuble Henri Poincaré, Domaine du Petit Arbois, Aix-en-Provence, France

Line B. Christensen

Affiliation Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Heike K. Lotze

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

Competing Interests

AMM currently works as a Fisheries Management Biologist with the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMM JMF HKL. Analyzed the data: AMM JMF HKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMM KK LBC. Wrote the paper: AMM JMF KK LBC HKL.