About the Authors

S. Hoyt Peckham

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hoyt@biology.ucsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Grupo Tortuguero A.C., La Paz, Baja California Sur, México

David Maldonado Diaz

Affiliation Grupo Tortuguero A.C., La Paz, Baja California Sur, México

Andreas Walli

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

Georgita Ruiz

Affiliation Grupo Tortuguero A.C., Distrito Federal, México

Larry B. Crowder

Affiliation Center for Marine Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Wallace J. Nichols

Affiliations California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Ocean Conservancy, Davenport, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP DM WN. Performed the experiments: SP DM WN. Analyzed the data: LC AW SP GR WN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW SP. Wrote the paper: LC SP GR.