About the Authors

Yi Guan

yi.guan@zmt-bremen.de

Affiliation Systems Ecology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Fahrenheitstraße 6, Bremen, Germany

Sönke Hohn

Affiliation Systems Ecology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Fahrenheitstraße 6, Bremen, Germany

Agostino Merico

Affiliations Systems Ecology, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Fahrenheitstraße 6, Bremen, Germany, Jacobs University, Campus Ring 1, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM SH. Performed the experiments: YG. Analyzed the data: YG. Wrote the paper: YG SH AM.