About the Authors

Benjamin I. Ruttenberg

Affiliations Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Scott L. Hamilton

Affiliations Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Sheila M. Walsh

Current address: The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mary K. Donovan

Affiliations Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, United States Geological Survey, Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Alan Friedlander

Affiliation United States Geological Survey, Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Edward DeMartini

Affiliation National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Aiea, Hawaii, United States of America

Enric Sala

Affiliations Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Blanes, Spain, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Stuart A. Sandin

ssandin@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAS SLH BIR. Performed the experiments: BIR SLH SMW MD AF ED ES SAS. Analyzed the data: SAS BIR SLH. Wrote the paper: BIR SLH SAS.