About the Authors

Jack A. Gilbert

gilbertjack@gmail.com

Affiliations Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Dawn Field

Affiliation National Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Paul Swift

Affiliations Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, National Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Simon Thomas

Affiliation Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Denise Cummings

Affiliation Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Ben Temperton

Affiliation Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Karen Weynberg

Affiliation Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Susan Huse

Affiliation Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Margaret Hughes

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Ian Joint

Affiliation Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Paul J. Somerfield

Affiliation Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Martin Mühling

Affiliation TU Bergakademie Freiberg, IÖZ - Interdisciplinary Centre for Ecology, Freiberg, Germany

Competing Interests

Jack A. Gilbert is a PLoS ONE Academic Editor. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAG DF IJ MM. Performed the experiments: JAG ST DC BT MH. Analyzed the data: JAG DF PS SH PJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW MH SH. Wrote the paper: JAG DF IJ MM.