1. IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Gland Switzerland
2. Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland, School of Biology, East Sands University of St Andrews St Andrews UK
3. Department of Life Sciences Natural History Museum London UK
4. National Centre for Scientific Research PSL Université Paris, CRIOBE, USR 3278 CNRS‐EPHE‐UPVD Paris France
5. School of Marine and Biological Sciences University of Plymouth Plymouth UK
6. Shimoda Marine Research Center University of Tsukuba Shimoda Japan
7. Department of Integrative Biology Oregon State University Corvallis USA
8. Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California San Diego La Jolla USA
9. The Laboratory The Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, Marine Biological Association Citadel Hill Plymouth UK
10. Somerville College University of Oxford Oxford UK
11. REV Ocean Lysaker Norway
12. University of Essex Colchester UK
13. Department of Zoology University of Oxford Oxford UK
14. Department of Environment and Geography University of York York UK
15. Centre for Ecology and Conservation University of Exeter Penryn UK