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Competing Interests

The authors declare they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Maria Dolores Belando conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Rocio García-Muñoz conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments.

Aranzazu Ramos analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables.

Ignacio Franco performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.

Jaime Bernardeau-Esteller performed the experiments.

Pedro García conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments.

Juan Manuel Ruiz conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Field Study Permissions

The following information was supplied relating to field study approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The General Directorate of Fishery Resources and Aquaculture of the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and the General Directorate of the Environment of the Regional Government gave support in field sampling performed in the declared Zone of Special Bird Portection Isla Grosa (ZEPA ES0000200) of the Natura 2000 Network.

Funding

This study form part of the project Monitoring network of P. oceanica meadows and global climate change of the Murcia Region funded by the Autonomous Government of the Murcia Region (General Directorate of Lifestock and Fishery) and the European Fishery Fund (EFF 2007-2013). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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