Biodiversity patterns of epipelagic copepods in the South Pacific Ocean: Strengths and limitations of current data bases

• Manuela Pérez-Aragón ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manuela Pérez-Aragón, Ruben Escribano, Reinaldo Rivera, Pamela Hidalgo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Doctoral Program of Oceanography, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía (IMO), Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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• Ruben Escribano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manuela Pérez-Aragón, Ruben Escribano, Reinaldo Rivera, Pamela Hidalgo

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rescribano@udec.cl

  Affiliations Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía (IMO), Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Department of Oceanography, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-7723

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• Reinaldo Rivera ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manuela Pérez-Aragón, Ruben Escribano, Reinaldo Rivera, Pamela Hidalgo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía (IMO), Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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• Pamela Hidalgo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manuela Pérez-Aragón, Ruben Escribano, Reinaldo Rivera, Pamela Hidalgo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía (IMO), Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Department of Oceanography, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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