Chiara Santinelli^1,2, Jonas Schiller³, Giancarlo Bachi¹, Hugo Berthelot⁴, Paola Bertucci⁵, Peer Boork⁵, Emmanuel Boss⁶, Vittorio Brando⁷, Marco Carloni¹, Giovanni Checcucci¹, Doug Couet^8,9, Colomban de Vargas^10,11, David Doxaran¹², Valtere Evangelista¹³, Mirco Guerrazzi¹, Morgan Guillam⁸, Tom Jordan¹⁴, Santiago Lago⁵, Victor Martinez-Vicente¹⁴, Claudia Tropea^1,15, Silvia Valsecchi^1,16 and Flora Vincente⁵, (1)Biophysics Institute, National Research Council (CNR-IBF), Pisa, Italy, (2)NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy, (3)European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany, (4)IFREMER, Centre de Bretagne, France, (5)European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, (6)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, United States, (7)Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR), Rome, Italy, (8)CNRS & Sorbonne Université, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France, (9)Research Federation for the study of Global ocean Systems Ecology & Evolution, Paris, France, (10)Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Station Biologique de Roscoff, AD2M ECOMAP, Roscoff, France, (11)8Research Federation for the study of Global ocean Systems Ecology & Evolution, Paris, France, (12)Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS/SU, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, (13)Biophysics Institute, National Research Council (CNR-IBF), Pisa, Italy, Pisa, Italy, (14)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (15)University of Pisa, Department of Biology, Pisa, Italy, (16)Regional Agency for the Development of Research, Technology and Innovation (ARDITI), Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE)/Aquatic Research Network (ARNET), Funchal, Portugal