About the Authors

Christine C. Shepard

cshepard@ucsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Caitlin M. Crain

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Michael W. Beck

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS CC MB. Performed the experiments: CS. Analyzed the data: CS CC. Wrote the paper: CS CC MB.