About the Authors

Roberto Danovaro

r.danovaro@univpm.it

Affiliation Dipartimento Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Joan Batista Company

Affiliation Institut de Ciències del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain

Cinzia Corinaldesi

Affiliation Dipartimento Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Gianfranco D'Onghia

Affiliation Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Bella Galil

Affiliation National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel

Cristina Gambi

Affiliation Dipartimento Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Andrew J. Gooday

Affiliation National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom

Nikolaos Lampadariou

Affiliation Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Crete, Greece

Gian Marco Luna

Affiliation Dipartimento Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Caterina Morigi

Affiliation Stratigraphy Department, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark

Karine Olu

Affiliation Département Etude des Ecosystèmes Profonds, Ifremer Centre de Brest, Plouzané, France

Paraskevi Polymenakou

Affiliation Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Crete, Greece

Eva Ramirez-Llodra

Affiliation Institut de Ciències del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain

Anna Sabbatini

Affiliation Dipartimento Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Francesc Sardà

Affiliation Institut de Ciències del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain

Myriam Sibuet

Affiliation Institut Océanographique, Paris, France

Anastasios Tselepides

Affiliation Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.