Ecological variables for deep-ocean monitoring must include microbiota and meiofauna for effective conservation

Affiliations

• ¹ Coastal and Marine Laboratory, Florida State University, St Teresa, FL, USA. jingels@fsu.edu.
• ² Marine Biology Research Group, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
• ³ DZMB, Senckenberg am Meer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
• ⁴ Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁵ Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁸ Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
• ⁹ National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
• ¹⁰ National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
• ¹¹ Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ¹² Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland.
• ¹³ Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS & Sorbonne Université, Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France.
• ¹⁴ Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, UK.
• ¹⁵ Department of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, the Netherlands.
• ¹⁶ Biocenter, Institute for Zoology, General Ecology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ¹⁷ LEP/EEP/REM, Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la MER, Plouzané, France.