About the Authors

Peter I. Macreadie

peter.macreadie@uts.edu.au

Affiliation Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster (C3), School of the Environment, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), New South Wales, Australia

A. Randall Hughes

Affiliation Marine Science Center, Northeastern University (NU), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David L. Kimbro

Affiliation Marine Science Center, Northeastern University (NU), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PIM ARH DLK. Performed the experiments: PIM DLK. Analyzed the data: PIM ARH DLK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARH DL. Wrote the manuscript: PIM ARH DLK.