About the Authors

Nicolas Lecomte

nicolas.lecomte@uit.no

Affiliation Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Øystein Ahlstrøm

Affiliation Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Science, Ås, Norway

Dorothée Ehrich

Affiliation Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Eva Fuglei

Affiliation Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Center, Tromsø, Norway

Rolf A. Ims

Affiliation Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Nigel G. Yoccoz

Affiliation Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL EF DE NGY RAI. Performed the experiments: NL ØA. Analyzed the data: NL DE NGY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL DE NGY ØA. Wrote the paper: NL DE RAI EF NGY ØA. Designed the R scripts: NGY NL.