About the Authors

Just Cebrian

Contributed equally to this work with: Just Cebrian, Jonathan B. Shurin

jcebrian@disl.org

Affiliation Dauphin Island Sea Lab and Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States of America

Jonathan B. Shurin

Contributed equally to this work with: Just Cebrian, Jonathan B. Shurin

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Elizabeth T. Borer

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Bradley J. Cardinale

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Jacqueline T. Ngai

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Melinda D. Smith

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

William F. Fagan

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC JS ETB BC JTN MS. Performed the experiments: JC JS. Analyzed the data: JC JS ETB BC MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JTN WFF. Wrote the paper: JC JS.