About the Authors

Ruth Reef

r.reef@uq.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Marine Studies and the Austrailan Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Paulina Kaniewska

Affiliation Centre for Marine Studies and the Austrailan Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Affiliation Centre for Marine Studies and the Austrailan Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR PK. Performed the experiments: RR PK. Analyzed the data: RR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR OHG. Wrote the paper: RR PK OHG.