Marine biodiversity and the chessboard of life

• Grégory Beaugrand ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gregory.beaugrand@univ-lille1.fr

  Affiliations CNRS, Univ. Lille, Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, Wimereux, France, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0712-5223

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• Christophe Luczak,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations CNRS, Univ. Lille, Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, Wimereux, France, Université d’Artois, ESPE, Centre de Gravelines, Gravelines, France

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• Eric Goberville,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations CNRS, Univ. Lille, Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, Wimereux, France, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Richard R. Kirby

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Secchi Disk Foundation, Kiln Cottage, Gnaton, Yealmpton, United Kingdom

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