660 Marine Scientists from 47* Countries Are Concerned

660 marine scientists from 47* countries are concerned

*Albania, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

In alphabetical order

Jonathan Ray Abat The Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Querzon city, Philippines

Pere Abelló Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Melissa J. Acevado Marine Biology and Oceanography Department, Institute of Marine Sciences (CSIC), 08003 Barcelona, Spain

Gemma Agell i Llobet Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain

Alex Aguilar Department of Animal Biology, University of Barcelona, 08071 Barcelona, Spain

Ricardo Aguilar Senior Research Director, Oceana, 28013 Madrid, Spain

Einat Aharonov Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

Shane T Ahyong Manager, Marine Invertebrates, Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia

Jacob Ainscough School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, UK

Laura Airoldi Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali BIGEA, Università di Bologna, 48123 Ravenna, Italy

Nesrine Akkari

Zoological department, Natural History Museum Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria

A.K.M. Rashidul Alam

Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh

Paolo G. Albano 1 Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Wien, 1090 Wien, Austria

Giancarlo Albertelli Dip.Te.Ris., Università degli Studi di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy

Carles Alcaraz IRTA, Aquatic Ecosystems, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, 43540 Tarragona, Spain

David Aldridge Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK

Olga Alexandrou Research and Conservation Sector, Society for the Protection of Prespa, Greece

Borys Aleksandrov Director, Institute of Marine Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 65011 Odessa, Ukraine

Vladimir Alexandrov Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol 299011, Russia

Stefano Aliani ISMAR - Marine Sciences Institute in La Spezia, CNR - National Research Council of Italy

Ahuva Almogi-Labin Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem 95501, Israel

María Altamirano Departemento de Biologia Vegetal, Campus de Teatinos s/n, Universidad de Málaga, 29071, Málaga, Spain

Luciana Altvater Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro CEP 24001- 970, Brazil

Ulla von Ammon The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

Ana Jesus B.M. Amorim Ferreira Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Thekla Anastasiou Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece

Katerina Anastasopoulou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, 19013, Anavissos, Attica, Greece

Olvido Tello Antón Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), 28002 Madrid, Spain

Costantino D’Antonio Delegazione Procida-Vivara, Golfo di Napoli, Italy

Aglaia Antoniou Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Gournes Pediados, Irakleio, Gr - 71003, Greece

2 Marco Arculeo Dipartimento STEBICEF, Università di Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy

Carmen Arena Dipartimento di Biologia , Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy

Miquel Canals-Artigas Dept. of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

Maite Arroita The University of the Basque Country, PO Box 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain

Christos Arvanitidis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Thalassokosmos, 71003 Heraklion, Greece

Valentina Asnaghi, DiSTAV, ex Dip.Te.Ris., Università degli Studi di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy

Eneko Aspillaga Department of Ecology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Javier Atalah Cawthron Institute, Nelson 7010, New Zealand

Melanie Austen Head of Science: Sea and Society, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK

Ernesto Azzurro ISPRA, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Sts Livorno, 57123 Livorno Italy

Susanne Baden Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden

Nicolas Bailly Institute for Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Rosa Balbín Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), 07013 Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Daniela Baldantoni Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia, Università degli Studi di Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy

Andrea Balduzzi Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, Università di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy

Tosca Ballerini Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Université de Toulon, France

Enrique Ballesteros Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain

Emilio Balletto Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, Turin University, 10123, Turin, Italy

3 Maria Balsamo Dept. Earth, Life and Environment Sciences (DiSTeVA), University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

Giuseppe Barbiero Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, University of Valle d'Aosta, Italy

Leo Barbut Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium

Ryan Baring Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide 5001, Australia

Mattia Barsanti ENEA - Italian National Agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development, UTMAR - Technical Unit for Marine Environment and Sustainable Development, Marine Environment Research Centre S. Teresa, 19100 La Spezia, Italy

Marco Bartoli Department of Environmental Sciences (DSA), Parma University, 43100 Parma, Italy

Luca Bartolozzi Natural History Museum, Florence University, Florence, Italy

Alberto Basset Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of the Salento, Lecce, Italy

Daniela Basso Dip.to di Scienze dell'Ambiente e del Territorio e di Scienze della Terra, Univ. Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy

Piero Battaglini Dipartimento di Zoologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80134 Napoli, Italy

Gaia Bazzi Department of Biosciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

Ferdinand Bego Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania

Meryem Beklioglu Middle East Technical University (METU), Department of Biological sciences, 06531 Ankara, Turkey

MariaCristina Belardinelli Dipartimento per l’Innovazione nei sistemi Biologici, Agro-alimentari e Forestali (DIBAF), Università della Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

Paola Belcari Dipartimento Di Biologia, Università di Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy

Carlo Belfiore Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche, Università degli studi della Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

Alessandro Bellino Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy

Lucio Bellomo

4 Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) Université de Toulon, La Garde, France

Genuario Belmonte Director MAUS Museum of the Environment, Editor in chief Thalassia Salentina, University of the Salento Campus Ecotekne, 73100, Lecce, Italy

Manuela Belmonte P.I. Lab. of Plankton Ecology, C.N.R. - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, U.O.S. Talassografico "A. Cerruti", 74123 Taranto, Italy

Matt Bentley Deputy Dean (Research and Professional Practice), Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK

Leo Berline Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanographie (UMR_D 235 MIO), Luminy, France

Giacomo Bernardi Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA

Giovanni Bernardini Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy

Chiara Bernini Dipartimento per l’Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici Agroalimentari e Forestali, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Sandro Bertolino DISAFA Entomology & Zoology, University of Turin, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy

Kiley Best Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL Canada

Roberta Bettinetti Theoretical and Applied Science Department, University of Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy

Stanislao Bevilaqua Università del Salento, Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Science, Lecce, Italy

Carlo Nike Bianchi DipTeRis, Università di Genova,. Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy

Gianluigi Bini Scientific Director of the Scientific Museum of Città di Castello, Italy

Maria Assunta Biscotti Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Francesco Bisi Unità di Analisi e Gestione delle Risorse Ambientali, Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate, Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, I-21100 Varese, Italy

April Blakeslee Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858, USA

Ferdinando Boero

5 Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Pieter Boets Department of Applied Ecology and Environmental Biology, Ghent University, Belgium

Cesare Bogi President, Gruppo Malacologico Livornese, 57124 Livorno, Italy

Giuseppe Bogliani Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy

Lucia Bogoni Istituto Di Istruzione Superiore Di Stato “Umberto I”, Alba, Italy

Steve Bollens Coastal & Estuarine Ecology Lab, Washington state University, Vancouver WA 98686-9600, USA

Marco Alberto Bologna Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Universita' degli Studi roma Tre, 446 - 00146 Roma, Italy

Alexander Boltachev, Deputy Director, Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol 299011, Russia

Lucio Bonato Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy

Liliya Bondareva Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol 299011, Russia

Antonio Bonfitto Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali BIGEA, Università di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Luís Borda de Água Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal

Joseph A Borg Head of Department of Biology, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080, Malta

Yaisel Juan Borrell University of Oviedo, 33003 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

Paolo Boscato Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy

Nathan Bott Biosciences. School, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Australia

Antonella Bottalico Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari "A. Moro", 70125 Bari, Italy

Lorraine Bottin University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 06108 Nice, France

Charles-François Boudouresque Professor emeritus, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), 13288 Marseille cedex 9, France

6 Andrea Bozman University of Nordland, 8049 Bodø, Norway

Silvia Bozzi DEIB - Politecnico di Milano, 32 - 20133 Milano, Italy

Sally Bracewell School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052, Australia

Pietro Brandmayr Dept. Biology, Ecology and Earth Science, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy

Luc Brendonck Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Denis Brennecke Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel 24105, Germany

Elizabeth Briski GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany

Taylor Broadhead University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA

Lucas Brotz Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

Norah Brown Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

Claude De Broyer Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, DO Taxonomie et Phylogenie, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

Jean-Pierre Brun Université de Rennes 1, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR), 35042 Rennes, France

Lyubov Burlakova Great Lakes Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA

Simone Busi ENEA-Bologna, Italy

Senem Çağlar Istanbul University, Science Faculty, Biology Department, 34134 Vezneciler - İstanbul, Turkey

Enrico Calvario Lynx Natura e Ambiente s.r.l., Roma, Italy

Marnie L. Campbell School of Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand

César Dinis Santos Capinha Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugaal

Rossella Capozzi

7 Dept. of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy

Sonia de Caralt Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain

Aina Carbonell Marine Ecology and Conservation Group, Spanish Institut of Oceanography (IEO), Balearic Islands Oceanographic Centre, 07015 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain

Lorenzo Carlesi Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60131, Ancona, Italy

James T. Carlton Maritime Studies Program, Williams College-Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut, USA

Sarah Caronni Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pavia University, 27100 Pavia, Italy

Gabriella Caruso National Research Council, Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (CNR-IAMC), 98122 Messina, Italy

Renato Casagrandi Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, 20133 Milano, Italy

Maurizio Casiraghi BTBS - Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy

Isabel Casties GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany

Peter Castro Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California 91768, USA

Richard B. Cathcart Geographos, Burbank, CA 91506, USA

Marcello Catra Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy

Giorgos Catsadorakis WWF, Greece

Emma Cavan National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 3ZH, UK

Emma Cebrian Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain

Massimo Ceci Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Ester Cecere Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto per l’Ambiente Marino Costiero sede di Taranto, 74123 Taranto, Italy

8 Iacopo Giuseppe Cecere ISPRA - Institute for Enviromental Protection and Research, 40064 Ozzano Emilia, Italy

Pierfilippo Cerretti Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin BBCD – Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Vanessa Cespedes Department of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-EBD (CSIC), Seville, Spain

Frederic Chain Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OC4, Canada

Alex Chalupa Department of Primary Industries and Resources, South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, 5001, Australia

Farrah Chan Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor ON N9C 1A2, Canada

Maria Chatzaki Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Eva Chatzinikolaou Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Thalassocosmos, 71500, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Aurore Chassanite USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE CRIOBE, Perpignan, France

Ariella Chelsky Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111, Australia

Renato Chemello Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, University of Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy

Mariachiara Chiantore DISTAV, Università di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy

Giovanni Chimienti Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

Asbjorn Christensen DTU-AQUA National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, 2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark

Lucrezia Cilenti Institute of Marine Sciences(ISMAR), National Research Council (CNR), 70010 Lesina, Italy

Francesca Cima Department of Biology, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy

Melih Ertan Çinar Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, Dept. of Hydrobiology, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

Francesco L. Cinelli Emeritus, University of Pisa, Italy, President of the Scientific Council of the International School for

9 Scientific Diving (ISSDONLUS) "Anna Proietti Zolla", Past President of the International Academy of Underwater Sciences and Tecniques, Scientific Director - Nuova Indago S.r.L. – Rome

Jeremy Claisse Department of Biology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA

Graeme Clark Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052, Australia

Paul Clark Life Sciences department, Invertebrates, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK

Peter D. Clift Charles T. McCord Chair in Petroleum Geology, Department of Geology and Geophysics, E235 Howe-Russell-Kniffen Geoscience Complex, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA

João Canning Clode Institution: Centre of IMAR of the University of the Azores, Portugal

Marina Cobolli Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Roma La Sapienza, 00185 Roma, Italy

Cristina Coccia Department of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana-EBD (CSIC), Seville, Spain

Silvia Cocito Marine Ecology Laboratory (UTMAR-ECOL), ENEA, Marine Environment and Sustainable Development Unit, 19100 La Spezia, Italy

Robert Colautti Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, K7L 3N6 Ontario, Canada

Victoria cole School of Science and Health, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta NSW 2150, Australia

Rafael Coma Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), 17300 Blanes, Spain

Longino Contoli Amante Ex CNR (National Research Council) and Università degli studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Elizabeth Cook Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Argyll, UK

Robert Cope School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia

Jordi Corbera Carrer Gran, 90, 08310 Argentona, Catalonia, Spain

Hanna Corell University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden

Xavier Corrales

10 Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Migdal 14950, Israel

Giuseppe Corriero Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy

Jessica Cosham Dalhousie University, Halifax NS B3H 4R2, Canada

Maria Costantini Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121Napoli, Italy

Mark Costello Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Leigh, New Zealand

Ian G. Cowx Director, Hull International Fisheries Institute, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University, USA

Joel Creed Departamento de Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20550- 013, Brazil.

Fabio Crocetta Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Jeff Crooks Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093-0218, USA

Davide Csermely Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Museo di Storia Naturale, Universita` di Parma, 43121 Parma, Italy

Amelia Curd IFREMER, 29280 Plouzané, France

Daniele Curiel SELC Società Cooperativa, Biologia e geologia applicate, 30175 Marghera Venezia, italy

Marco Curini-Galletti Dipartimento di Scienzedella Natura e del Territorio, Università di Sassari, 25 -07100 Sassari, Italy

Angela Cuttitta IAMC CNR Capo Granitola, Torretta Granitola 91021, Trapani, Italy

Emilija Cvetanovska Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OC4, Canada

Raffaele D'Adamo Istituto di Scienze Marine Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ISMAR-CNR, 71010 Lesina, Italy

Isabella D’Ambra Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Karoline Dafforn Evolution and Ecology Research Center, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Emanuela Dattolo

11 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

John Davenport Emeritus Professor, Associate Editor, Journal of Molluscan Studies, School of BEES, University College Cork, Ireland

Evelien Deboelpaep Laboratory of Plant Science and Nature Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Ivana Delbono ENEA - Italian National Agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development, UTMAR - Technical Unit for Marine Environment and Sustainable Development, Marine Environment Research Centre S. Teresa, 19100 La Spezia, Italy

Paola Del Negro Director, Oceanography Department, OGS, National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics, 34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy

Elvira De Matthaeis President of Unione Zoologica Italiana (UZI), Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Charles Darwin" - Zoology sectio, Sapienza University of Rome, 00191 Roma, Italy

George Deodatis Chair, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

Salud Deudero Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares-Instituto Español de Oceanografía, 07015 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain

Iole Di Capua Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Jelle Devalez Laboratory of Biogeography & Ecology, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece

Jayna DeVore School of biological sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia

Joana Dias School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley WA 6009, Australia

Jaimie Dick School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK

Sebastian Diehl Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden

Panagiotis Dimitriou Department of Biology, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete 71003, Greece

Aldona Dobrzycka-Krahel Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Alper Dogan Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Hydrobiology, 35100, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

12 Gianfranco D’Onghia Department of Biology , University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy

Jakov Dulčić Head of Laboratory for Ichthyology and Fisheries, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia

Berrin Dural Aegean University, Faculty of Science, Biology Department- Marine Botanik, Bornova-İzmir, Turkey

Furkan Durucan Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, Su Ürünleri Fakültesi, Deniz Biyolojisi Anabilim Dalı, 32260 Çünür, Isparta, Turkey

Bill Dyck Pacific Ocean Initiative, Nelson 7042, New Zealand

Fabio Eboli FEEM – Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Research Programme, San Giorgio Maggiore, 30124 Venezia, Italy

Anastasios Eleftheriou Department of biology, University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Arturo Elosegi Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

Elena Erotokritou Department of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, 1498 Nicosia, Cyprus

Franz Essl Environment Agency Austria, Spittelauer L ä nde 5, AT-1090 Vienna, Austria

Jeremaiah Etz-Hokin Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 9552, USA

Julian Evans Department of Biology, University of Malta, MSD2080 Msida, Malta

Anna Fagotti Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Rex Fairweather Science & Engineering Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Emanuela Fanelli Marine Environment Research Centre, ENEA - Santa Teresa, Pozzuolo di Lerici 19100 - La Spezia, Italy

Mauro Fasola Dipartimento Scienze della Terra e Ambiente, Università Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy

Anna Maria Fausto Dipartimento per l’Innovazione nei sistemi Biologici, Agro-alimentari e Forestali (DIBAF), Università della Tuscia,01100 Viterbo, Italy

Teresa Fernandes School of Life Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK

Luz Fernandez de Puelles Marine Ecology and Conservation Group, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Balearic Islands Oceanographic Centre, 07015 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain

Marco Ferraguti Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy

Cinzia Ferrario Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Jasmine Ferrario Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Ireneo Ferrari Dipartimento di Scienze ambientali, Università degli Studi di Parma, 43100 Parma, Italy

Paola Ferri DiSTeVA, L'Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, 61029 Urbino PU, Italy

Venera Ferrito Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, Sezione di Biologia Animale "Marcello La Greca", Università degli studi di Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy

Jordi Figuera Estación Biológica de Doñana, EBD-CSIC, 41080 Sevilla, Spain

Oliver Floerl Cawthron Institute, Nelson 7010, New Zealand

Romolo Fochetti Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy

Sergei I. Fokin. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia

Diego Fontaneto National Research Council, Institute of Ecosystem Study, 28922 Verbania Pallanza, Italy

Luca Maria Foresi Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy

Camille Fossano Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Patrice Francour Director E.A. 4228 ECOMERS ECOlogy of Marine Ecosystems and Responses to Stress Nice-Sophia Antipolis University, 06 108 Nice Cedex 02, France

Simonetta Fraschetti Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Francesco Frati Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy

Fulvio Fraticelli Stazione Romana Osservazione e Protezione Uccelli, 00183 Roma, Italy 14

Aaron Freeman Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530, USA

Gina de la Fuente Mancebo DISTAV (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Ambiente e della Vita), University of Genoa, Italy

Giulia Furfaro Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Degli Studi ‘Roma Tre’, 00146 Roma, Italy

Douglas J. Eernisse Department of Biological Science California State University Fullerton, CA 92834-6850 USA

Gideon Gal Yigal Alon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research institute, Migdal, Israel

Nicola Maria Galasso CNR-IAMC Capo Granitola, 91021, Torretta-Granitola Campobello di Mazara, Trapani, Italy

Bella S. Galil National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel

Alessandra Gagliardi Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy

Karine Gagnon Department of Biology, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland

Belinda Gallardo Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), 50059 Zaragoza, Spain

Chetan Gaonkar Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Ezio Garante Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Maria Garcia Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain

Emili García-Berthou Institute of Aquatic Ecology & Dept. Environmental Sciences University of Girona, E-17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Antonia Garcia-Rubies Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain

Cliff Garside Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Marino Gatto Dip.to di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano 20133, Italy

Eva Royo Gelabert European Environment Agency (EEA), Senior Advisor Marine Ecosystem Assessments, 1050 Copenhagen Denmark

Jonathan Geller Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, CA 95039, USA

Angelo Genovese Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80138 Napoli, Italy

Elisavet Georgopoulou Geological –Palaeontological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, 1010, Vienna, Austria

Daan Gerla NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, 1797 SZ Den Hoorn Texel, Netherlands

Antonis Geropoulos University of Crete, Biology Department, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Adriana Giangrande Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Ilaria.Giovannini Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Piero G. Giulianini Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Vojsava Gjoni Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

Jesica Goldsmit Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (ISMER-UQAR), Rimouski QC G5L 3A1, Canada

Inez Gomes University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Raquel Goñi Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares - Instituto Español de Oceanografía, 07015 Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Manuel María González-Duarte Center for Marine Conservation, Department of Ecology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Menachem Goren Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel

Sonia Gorgula Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Canberra 2601, Australia

Christian Gorini Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Institut des Sciences de la Terre Paris (iSTeP) - CNRS UMR 7193 Laboratoire Evolution et Modélisation des Bassins Sédimentaires, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France

Paul Goriup Chairman, NatureBureau, Newbury, RG14 5SJ, UK

Rosalba Gornati Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy

Gabriel Gorsky CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche sur Mer, 06230 Villefranche sur Mer, France

Philippe Goulletquer, IFREMER, Scientific Division (DS) in charge of 'Marine Biodiversity', Associate Editor 'Aquatic Invasions Bioinvasions Records', 44311 Nantes, France

Michal Grabowski, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Poland

Valentina Grande Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto si Scienze MARine (CNR-ISMAR) Bologna, Italy

Cinzia Gravili Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy

Andy Green Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.

Paul Gribben School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052, Australia

Annalisa Griffa ISMAR, CNR, Marine Sciences Institute, 19032 La Spezia, Italy

Edwin Grosholz Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

Giovanni DI Guardo University of Teramo, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 64100 Teramo, Italy

Laura Guerra Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Concetta Gugliandolo Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy

Paolo Guidetti ECOMERS Lab., University Nice Sophia Antipolis, 06103 Nice, France

Roberto Guidetti Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Loretta Guidi Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Urbino 'Carlo Bo' 61029 Urbino, Italy

Nick Gust Biofouling Solutions Pty Ltd, Kingston TAS 7050, Australia

Angelos K. Hannides Department of Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC 29528-6054, USA

Richard Hartnoll

17 School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Vena Haynes Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, USA

Victoria Hemming Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

Victoria Hemsley National Oceanography Centre, University of southamptonWaterfront Campus, Southampton, UK

Michel Hendrickx Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mazatlán, Sinaloa 82000, Mexico

Marco Hernandez Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Isabel González Herraiz Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Centro Oceanográfico de A Coruña, 15001 A Coruña, Spain

Montserrat Ramón Herrero Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), 08003 Barcelona, Spain

Chad L. Hewitt School of Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Alasdair Hirst School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deckin University, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, Victoria 3216, Australia

Sandra Hochscheid Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Danja Hoehn Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK

Ben Hoffmann Principal Research Scientist, Land & Water Flagship, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, NT 0822, Australia

Grant Hopkins Cawthron Institute, Nelson 7010, New Zealand

Tammy Horton Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems, National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Kimberly Howland Arctic Stock Assessment Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N6 Canada,

Carla G. Huete-Stauffer Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Spain

Mareike Huhn Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, GGEOMAR, 24105Kiel, Germany

Josephine Iacarella Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OC4, Canada

Adrianna Ianora Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Carles Ibanez IRTA, Aquatic Ecosystems Program, Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Catalonia, Spain

Pamela Imperadore Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Gianna Innocenti Natural Histroy Museum, Florence University, Via Romana 17, Florence Italy

Anastasia Imsiridou Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, GR-63200, Nea Moudania, Halkidiki, Greece

Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic University of Niš, Department of Biology and Ecology Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, 18000 Niš, Serbia; University of Belgrade, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biological Research S. Stanković, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Daniele Iudicone Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Marlene Jahnke Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy

Krzysztof Jazdzewski Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Poland

Anders Jelmert Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen Marine Research Station, His, Norway

Kathe R. Jensen Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, K-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Laramie Jensen Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA

Emma Johnston Head of the Applied Marine and Estuarine Ecology Lab (AMEE), School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052, Australia

Kevin Johnson Marine and Environmental Systems, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA

Antoni Jordi Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), 07190 Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain

Vicky Kalogeropoulou Department of biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Lyudmila Kamburska

19 CNR Institute of Ecosystem Study, 28922 Verbania Pallanza, Italy

Alexander Karatayev Great Lakes Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA

Georgios Karris Department of Environment Technologists, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Ionian Islands, GR-29100, Panagoula, Zakynthos, Greece

Panagiotis Kasapidis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece

Yaeer Kattan ARAMCO Saudi Arabia

Stelios Katsanevakis University of the Aegean,Department of Marine Sciences, 81100 Mytilene,Greece

Erjola Keci Faculty of Natural Sciences, Tirana University, Tirana, Albania

George Kehayias Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, GR 30100, Greece

Stefanie Keller Instituto Español de Oceanografia IEO, Centre Ocenografic de les Balears (COB), 07015 Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain

Ana Morillas Kieffer Instituto Español de Oceanografia IEO, Centre Ocenografic de les Balears (COB), 07015 Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain

Daniel Kluza Science and Risk assessment Directorate, New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington 8140, New Zealand

K. Emily Knott Department of Biological & Environmental Science, Ambiotica C4, 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Yolanda Koulouri HCMR, Gournes Pediados, Irakleion 71003, Crete, Greece

Zoi Ι. Konstantinou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Civil Engineering, Division of Hydraulics and Environment, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece

Hemin A. Koyi Director of Hans Ramberg Tectonic Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden

Franz Krapp Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, D-53113 Bonn, Germany

Traudl Krapp-Schickel Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, D-53113 Bonn, Germany

Michael Krom Director of the Leeds Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Earth Sciences, Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Peter Krost Coastal Research and Management, 24159 Kiel, Germany

Iarre Lafort Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Gabriele La Mesa Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), 00144 Rome, Italy

Diego Moreno Lampreave Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua de Andalucía, Biodiversidad y Geodiversidad, 04007 Almería, Spain

Joachim Langeneck Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy

Francesco Lami Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences BiGeA, Università di Bologna, Italy

Anastasia Lampou Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece

Claudio Lardicci Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy

Hamish Lass Biosecurity (Terrestrial and Aquatic pests) Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Rotorua, New Zealand

Delphine Latour Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand, 63177 Aubière Cedex. France

Kari L. Lavalli Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, College of General Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA

James Lavender Evolution and Ecology Research Center, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Anastasios Legakis Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, University of Athens, Greece

Maiju Lehtiniemi Marine Research Center, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Christophe Lejeusne Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Station Biologique de Roscoff, 29608 Roscoff, France

Kaeden Leonard Marine Conservation and Resource Sustainability, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7005, Australia

Rossella Di Leonardo

21 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare (DiSTeM), Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy

Antonella Leone National Research Council - Institute of Sciences of Food Production (CNR-ISPA), 73100 Lecce, Italy

Claudio Leonzio Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche della Terra e dell’Ambiente Università degli Studi di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy

Rob Leuven Aquatic animal ecology, Radboud University, 6525 HP Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Oscar Lisi Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Section of Animal Biology, University of Catania, 95124, Catania, Italy

Sabrina Lo Brutto Dept.STEBICEF (Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche Chimiche e Farmaceutiche), University of Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy

Ueli Löffel University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

Chiara Lombardi Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

Biancamaria Lombardo Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, 95124 Catania, Italy

Caterina Longo Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy

Charles Loewen University of Alberta, Edmonton AB T6G 2R3, Canada

Violeta Lopez-Marquez Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Anna Loy Department of Biosciences and Territory, Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso, Italy

Ángel A. Luque Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Devin Lyons Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada

Kevin Ma Département de biologie, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada

Hugh MacIsaac Director, NSERC Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network II, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

Mary MC Mackay

22 School of Geoscience, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK

Megan MacLennan University of Alberta, Edmonton AB T6G 2R3, Canada

Annie Machordom Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Rachele Macirella Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Science, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Cosenza, Italy

Enrique Macpherson Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CSIC), Blanes. Girona, Spain

Vesna Mačić Institute of marine biology, 85330 Kotor, Montenegro

Hawis Madduppa Marine Science and Technology Department, Bogor Agricultural University, Jawa Barat 16680, Indonesia

Fulvio Maffucci Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Elena Maggi Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy

Antonios Magoulas Director of Research, Director of the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture IMBBC), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 710 03, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Germana Di Maida Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare (DiSTeM), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Maria Maidanou Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology & Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece; Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Greece

Porzia Maiorano Department of Biology, University of Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy

Alenka Malej Marine Biology Station, 6330 Piran, Slovenia

Ferruccio Maltagliati Unità di Biologia Marina e Ecologia, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy

Emiliano Mancini Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Department of Sciences, Rome, Italy

Renata Manconi Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio (DIPNET), Università di Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy

Nicholas Mandrake Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto ON M1C 1A4, Canada

Thomas Mani

23 University of Basel, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland

Claudio Manicastri Museo civico di Zoologia, 00197 Roma, Italy

Lucia Manni Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy

Anna Maria Mannino Dipartimento Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università di Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy

Tereza Manousaki Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Agnese Marchini Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Francesca Margiotta Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Isabel Marín Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC), 08003 Barcelona, Spain

Lindsay Marks Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Yossi Mart Recanati Inst. of Maritime Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel

Daniel Martin Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CEAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) 17300 Blanes, Catalunya, Spain

Jocelyne Martin E.M.H. - Unité écologie et modèles pour l'halieutique, Ifremer Centre de Nantes, F-44311 Nantes, France

Adriano Martinoli Unità di Analisi e Gestione delle Risorse Ambientali, Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate, Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy

Alessio Martinoli Unità di Analisi e Gestione delle Risorse Ambientali, Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate, Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, I-21100 Varese, Italy

Francesco Nonnis Marzano Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, 43121 Parma, Italy

Valentina Laghezza Masci Dipartimento per l’Innovazione nei sistemi Biologici, Agro-alimentari e Forestali (DIBAF), Università della Tuscia,01100 Viterbo, Italy

Daniel Masson Laboratoire L.E.R.P.C., 17390 La Tremblade, France

Francesco Mastrototaro

24 Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari, 70125Bari, Italy

Alfonso Matarrese Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy

Mariana Mayer Pinto Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052, Australia

Maria Grazia Mazzocchi Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Naples, Italy

Justin McDonald Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia, North Beach 6920 W Australia, Australia

Floyd McCoy Department of Natural Sciences, University of Hawaii-Windward College, Kaneohe, HI 96744 USA

Chris Mckindsey Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institut Maurice-Lamontagne, Mont-Joli, QC G5H 3Z4, Canada

Paco Melia Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy

Pelayo Menendez Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Bruno Meola MEDPAN

Maria Mercurio Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy

Jessica Merrett Evolution and Ecology Research Center, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Luciana de Messano Marine Biotechnology Division, Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira, Praia dos Anjos, Arraial do Cabo, RJ Brazil Giuseppina Messina Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, university of Catania, Catania, Italy

Francesc Mestres Departament de Genètica Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Lisa Mevenkamp Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Axel Meyer Department of Biology, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany

Aleko Miho Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Albania

Marco Milazzo

25 Department of Earth and Marine Science (DiSTeM), Università degli studi di Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy

Nataliya Milchakova Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol 299011, Russia

Despina Migli Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

Luciana Migliore Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy

Dan Minchin Marine Organism Investigations, 3 Marina Village, Ballina, Killaloe, Co Clare, Ireland

Alessandro Minelli Specialty Editor-in-chief for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Department of Biology, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy

Roberto Minervini Università degli studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Frédéric Mineur School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK

George Minos Alexander Technological Educational Institute Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Laurence Miossec IFREMER, Coordination of the Water Framework Directive, 44311 Nantes Cedex 3, France

Alice Mirasole Dipartimento di Scienza della Terra e del Mare (DiSTeM), Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Nataliya Mironova Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol 299011, Russia

Simone Modugno 20068 Peschiera Borromeo (MI), Italy

Tom Moens Biology Department, Marine Biology Lab, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Monica Montefalcone DiSTAV, University of Genoa, 16132 Genoa, Italy

Alessandro Montemaggiori, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Andrea Moore Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada

Manolis Moraitis Department of Biology, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete 71003, Greece

26 Joan Moranta Marine Ecology and Conservation Group, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Balearic Islands Oceanographic Centre, 07015 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain

Maurizio Morelli Museo civico di Zoologia, 00197 Roma, Italy

Carla Morri Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e della Vita (DiSTAV), Università di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy

James Morris University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29201, USA

Catriona Morrison School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

Cathryn Murray PICES - North Pacific Marine Science Organization, Sidney, BC, Canada

David Morritt, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK

Luigi Musco Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche - Istituto per L'ambiente Marino Costiero (CNR-IAMC), Laboratorio di Ecologia Marina, 91014 Castellammare del Golfo, Italy

Maria Naletaki Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Gournes, Iraklion 71003, Crete, Greece

Chris Nall Environmental Research Institute, University of Highlands and Islands, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7EE, UK

Ana Navarro University of the Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal

Stefan Nehring Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Konstantinstrasse 110, 53179 Bonn, Germany

Brian Nelson Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA

Anders Nilsson Biology Department, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden 221 00 Lund, Sweden

Carlotta Nonnis Marzano Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari, 70124 Bari, Italy

Stamatina Nikolopoulou Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Thalassocosmos, 71500, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Maria Noidou WWF Greece, Island wetlands project office, Irakleion, Crete 71306, Greece

Andrea Norden Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OC4, Canada

Monika Normant Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdansk, Poland

Miodeli Nogueira Júnior Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, Brasil

Delphine Hélène, Nourisson Department of Biology University of Florence, 50125 Firenze, Italy

Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Eyal Ofir Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Migdal 14950, Israel

Temel Oguz Institute of Marine Science, Middle East Technical University, Erdemli 33731, Turkey

Henn Ojaveer Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Pärnu, Estonia

Nilgun Okay Center of Excellence for Disaster Management, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak 34469, Istanbul, Turkey

Sergej Olenin Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania

Marco Oliverio Department of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Rome University, 00185 Roma, Italy

Ettore Olmo Dipartimento di Biochimica, Biologia e Genetica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy

Paola Otalora Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Bilal Ozturk Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Hydrobiology, 35100, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

Panayiotis Pafilis Dept. Zoology and Marine Biology, School of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Patrizia Pagliara DiSTeBA, Università del Salento,73100 Lecce, Italy

Katie Pagnucco Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OC4, Canada

Filipa Paiva GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Marine Ecology, Kiel 24105, Germany

Creu Palacín

28 Dept. Animal Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain

Ferran Palero BPI - Biologie des Populations Introduites, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech (INRA PACA) 06903 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France

Claudia Palestrini Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, 10123 Torino, Italy

Ioannidis Panagiotis Kentro Piroforisis Delta Evrou, Traianoupoli 68100, Greece

Emmanouela Panteri Institute for Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Hera klion, Crete, Greece

Nadia Papadopoulou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Nafsika Papageorgiou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Gabriella Papastefanou Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece

Katerina Pargana Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Marta Pascual Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Marco Passamonti Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, University of Bologna, Italy

Michele A. Pastore Emeritus, Istituto Talassografico CNR, Taranto, Via Daniele Manin 2/a, 74015 Martina Franca, Italy

Avery Paxton Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Judith Pederson Marine Ecologist, MIT Sea Grant College Program, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Antonella Penna, Dep Biomolecular Science -Environmental Biology, University of Urbino, 61100 Pesaro, Italy

George Perantinos nstitute for Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Hera klion, Crete, Greece

Koebraa peters DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Antonella Petrocelli CNR-IAMC, 74123 Taranto, Italy

Francesco Petti

29 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, Italy

Ester Piccinni Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy

Simona Picchietti Department DIBAF, University of Tuscia Viterbo, Italy

Jaume Piera Institut de Ciències del Mar, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

Julius Piercy School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK

Antonella Pietta Dipt Economia e management, Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25122 Brescia, Italy

Francesc Piferrer Institut de Ciències del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

Tom Pinceel Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Stefania Pinna Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy

Carlo Pipitone CNR-IAMC, National Research Council - Institute for Marine Coastal Environment, Castellammare del Golfo, Italy

Stefano Piraino Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Marta Piscitelli ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy

Wanda Plaiti Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Thalassocosmos, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Serge Planes National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE CRIOBE, University of Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France

Xavier Pochon Cawthron Institute, Nelson 7010, New Zealand

Gianluca.Polese Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy

Massimo Ponti President of the Italian Association of Scientific Divers, Vice-President of the Reef Check Italy association Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università di Bologna, 48123 Ravenna, Italy

Erika M.D. Porporato CNR-IAMC, U.O. Castellammare del Golfo, 91014 Castellammare del Golfo, Italy

Giuseppe Portacci P.I. Lab. of Plankton Ecology, C.N.R. - Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, U.O.S. Talassografico "A. Cerruti", 74123 Taranto, Italy

Dimitris Poursanidis Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Enzo Pranzini Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50122 Firenze, Italy

Fabio Pranovi Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics Dept. Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy

Gabriele Procaccini Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, 80121 Napoli, Italy

Jennifer Purcell Western Washington University (WWU), USA.

Autun Purser Earth & Space Sciences, Jacobs University, 28759 Bremen, Germany

Antonio Pusceddu Vice-President of the Italian Association of Oceanography and Limnology, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, 60131 Ancona, Italy

Petr Pysek Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Pruhonice, Czech Republic

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