About the Authors

Thomas Wernberg

thomas.wernberg@uwa.edu.au

Affiliation UWA Oceans Institute & School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Mads S. Thomsen

Affiliations UWA Oceans Institute & School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Marine Ecology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Sean D. Connell

Affiliation Environment Institute & Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Bayden D. Russell

Affiliation Environment Institute & Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Jonathan M. Waters

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Giuseppe C. Zuccarello

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Gerald T. Kraft

Affiliation School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Craig Sanderson

Affiliation School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

John A. West

Affiliation School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Carlos F. D. Gurgel

Affiliations Environment Institute & Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, South Australian State Herbarium, Science Resource Centre, Department of Environment & Natural Resources, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, South Australian Research and Development Institute, Aquatic Sciences, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;

Competing Interests

Co-author Sean D. Connell is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. 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: TW MST SDC BDR JMW GCZ GTK CS JAW CFG. Analyzed the data: TW MST SDC BDR CFG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CFG. Wrote the manuscript: TW MST SDC BDR CFG.