About the Authors

Jack A. Gilbert

jagi@pml.ac.uk

Affiliation Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Dawn Field

Affiliation NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, CEH Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ying Huang

Affiliation California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Rob Edwards

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Weizhong Li

Affiliation California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Paul Gilna

Affiliation California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ian Joint

Affiliation Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAG DF IJ. Performed the experiments: JAG. Analyzed the data: JAG DF YH RAE WL PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAG IJ. Wrote the paper: JAG DF WL IJ.