About the Authors

Enric Sala

esala@ngs.org

Affiliations National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Spain

Enric Ballesteros

Affiliation Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Spain

Panagiotis Dendrinos

Affiliation MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, Athens, Greece

Antonio Di Franco

Affiliation DiSTeBA, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

Francesco Ferretti

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

David Foley

Affiliations NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Simonetta Fraschetti

Affiliation DiSTeBA, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

Alan Friedlander

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit and University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Joaquim Garrabou

Affiliation Centre Mediterrani d'Investigacions Marines i Ambientals, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Harun Güçlüsoy

Affiliations Dokuz Eylül University – Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology, Inciralti, Izmir, Turkey, SAD-EKOG, Maltepe, Ankara, Turkey

Paolo Guidetti

Affiliation DiSTeBA, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

Benjamin S. Halpern

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Bernat Hereu

Affiliation Departament d'Ecologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Alexandros A. Karamanlidis

Affiliation MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, Athens, Greece

Zafer Kizilkaya

Affiliation SAD-EKOG, Maltepe, Ankara, Turkey

Enrique Macpherson

Affiliation Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Spain

Luisa Mangialajo

Affiliation Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

Simone Mariani

Affiliation Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Spain

Fiorenza Micheli

Affiliation Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

Antonio Pais

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Kristin Riser

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

Andrew A. Rosenberg

Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Marta Sales

Affiliation Estació d'Investigació Jaume Ferrer, IEO-Centre Oceanogràfic de Balears, Maó, Spain

Kimberly A. Selkoe

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Rick Starr

Affiliations Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, California, United States of America

Fiona Tomas

Affiliation Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Spain

Mikel Zabala

Affiliation Departament d'Ecologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES EB SF PG LM FM AR MZ. Performed the experiments: ES EB PD AD FF SF JG HG PG BSH BH AK ZK EM LM SM FM AP KR MS KS RS FT MZ. Analyzed the data: ES EB AD FF DF SF AF PG BSH FM. Wrote the paper: ES EB FF SF PG BSH FM AR.