Lisa A Levin¹, Chih-Lin Wei², Daniel C Dunn³, Diva Amon⁴, Oliver Ashford⁵, William W.L. Cheung⁶, Ana Colaço⁷, Elva Escobar-Briones⁸, Harriet Harden Davies^1,9, Jeffrey Drazen¹⁰, Khaira Ismail¹¹, Daniel Jones¹², David Johnson¹³, Jennifer Tran Le¹⁴, Franck Lejzerowicz¹⁵, Satoshi Mitarai¹⁶, Telmo Morato¹⁷, Sandor Mulsow¹⁸, Paul VR Snelgrove¹⁹, Andrew K Sweetman²⁰ and Moriaki Yasuhara²¹, (1)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)National Taiwan University, Institute of Oceanography, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)Duke University Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Beaufort, NC, United States, (4)Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)The University of British Columbia, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (7)University of the Azores, Institute of Marine Research, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, (8)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Mexico City, EM, Mexico, (9)Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia, (10)University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (11)Duke University Marine Laboratory, North Carolina, USA, Durham, United States, (12)University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (13)Seascape Consultants, United Kingdom, (14)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (15)University of California, United States, (16)Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Marine Biophysics Unit, Onna, Okinawa, Japan, (17)University of Azores, Portugal, (18)Private, Chile, (19)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Biology and Ocean Sciences Center, St. John's, NF, Canada, (20)Heriot-Watt University, Lyell Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (21)The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong