A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone

Tracey Sutton1, Malcolm R. Clark2, Daniel C. Dunn3, Patrick N. Halpin3, Alex D. Rogers4, John M. Guinotte5, Steven J. Bograd6, Martin Angel7, José Ángel Álvarez Pérez8, Karen F. Wishner9, Richard L. Haedrich10, Dhugal J. Lindsay11, Jeffrey C. Drazen12, Alexander L. Vereshchaka13, Uwe Piatkowski14, Telmo Morato15, Katarzyna Błachowiak‐Samołyk16, Bruce H. Robison17, Kristina M. Gjerde18, A.C. Pierrot-Bults19, Patricio Bernal20, Gabriel Reygondeau21, Mikko Heino22
1Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, 8000 North Ocean Drive, Dania Beach, FL 33004, USA
2National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, 301 Evans Bay Parade, Greta Point, Wellington, New Zealand
3Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd, Beaufort, NC, 28516, USA
4Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
5Marine Conservation Institute, 4010 Stone Way N, Suite 210, Seattle, WA, 98103, USA
6NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, 99 Pacific St. Suite 255A, Monterey, CA, 93940, USA
7National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom
8Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Rua Uruguai, 458, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil
9Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 215 S Ferry Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA
10Memorial University, 230 Elizabeth Ave, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 3X9
11Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture 237-0021, Japan
12Dept. of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
13P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Nakhimovskiy pr., 36, Moscow 117218, Russia
14GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
15Centro do IMAR da Universidade dos Açores & Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), Universidade dos Açores, 9901-862 Horta, Portugal
16Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Powstancow Warszawy 55, Sopot 81-712, Poland
17Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA
18Wycliffe Management, Ul. Korotynskiego 21/34, Warszawa, Poland
19Univ. of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
20International Union for Conservation of Nature, L′Institut océanographique, 195, rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris, France
21Fisheries Centre, Univ. of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, Canada BC V6T 1Z4
22Department of Biology and Hjort Centre for Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Bergen, Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway

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