About the Authors
- Stuart A. Sandin
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Jennifer E. Smith
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Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
- Edward E. DeMartini
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Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Elizabeth A. Dinsdale
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Simon D. Donner
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Affiliation Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
- Alan M. Friedlander
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Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science-Biogeography Team and The Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, Hawaii, United States of America
- Talina Konotchick
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Machel Malay
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Affiliation Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- James E. Maragos
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Affiliation Pacific/Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- David Obura
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Affiliation CORDIO East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya
- Olga Pantos
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Gustav Paulay
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Affiliation Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Morgan Richie
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Forest Rohwer
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Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Robert E. Schroeder
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Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research and Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
- Sheila Walsh
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Affiliation Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Jeremy B. C. Jackson
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Affiliations Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama
- Nancy Knowlton
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Affiliations Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama
- Enric Sala
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*E-mail: esala@ucsd.edu
Affiliations Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Blanes, Spain
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ NK GP ES JS SS FR OP ED AF JM DO. Performed the experiments: GP ES JS SS FR ED OP ED AF MM JM DO. Analyzed the data: ES JS SS FR ED OP ED AF JM DO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FR SD TK MR SW RS. Wrote the paper: JJ NK ES JS SS.