About the Authors

Hauke Flores

hauke.flores@awi.de

Current address: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany

Affiliations Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Texel, The Netherlands, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany

Jan Andries van Franeker

Affiliation Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Texel, The Netherlands

Volker Siegel

Affiliation Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute for Sea Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany

Matilda Haraldsson

Affiliation Department of Marine Ecology, University of Gothenburg, Fiskebäckskil, Sweden

Volker Strass

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany

Erik Hubert Meesters

Affiliation Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Texel, The Netherlands

Ulrich Bathmann

Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany

Willem Jan Wolff

Affiliation Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAF HF WJW. Performed the experiments: HF JAF VS MH VS. Analyzed the data: HF HWGM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HF JAF VS UB. Wrote the paper: HF JAF VS MH VS HWGM UB WJW.