About the Authors

Sean C. Anderson

sean.anderson@dal.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Joanna Mills Flemming

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Reg Watson

Affiliation Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Heike K. Lotze

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SCA JMF HKL. Analyzed the data: SCA JMF HKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RW. Wrote the paper: SCA JMF RW HKL.