1. Department of Zoology Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978 Israel
2. H. T. Harvey & Associates 983 University Avenue, Building D Los Gatos CA 95032‐7637 U.S.A.
3. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies University of Tasmania Hobart Tasmania 7001 Australia
4. Eilat Campus Ben‐Gurion University Eilat Israel
5. Marine Science Institute University of California Santa Barbara CA 93106‐6150 U.S.A.
6. Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Earth System Knowledge Platform (ESKP) Bussestrasse 24 D‐27570 Bremerhaven Germany
7. Global Marine Team of The Nature Conservancy at the Institute of Marine Sciences University of California 1156 High Street Santa Cruz CA 95064 U.S.A.
8. The Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Kehilat New‐York Street Tel Aviv 6775323 Israel
9. Department of Environmental Sciences Dalhousie University Truro NS B2N 5E3 Canada
10. Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California Santa Barbara CA 93106‐6150 U.S.A.