About the Authors

Alastair Brown

alastair.brown@noc.soton.ac.uk

Affiliation University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Sven Thatje

Affiliation University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST. Performed the experiments: AB ST. Analyzed the data: AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST. Wrote the paper: AB ST.