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The oceans’ twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late
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- Adrian Martin0,
- Philip Boyd1,
- Ken Buesseler2,
- Ivona Cetinic3,
- Hervé Claustre4,
- Sari Giering5,
- Stephanie Henson6,
- Xabier Irigoien7,
- Iris Kriest8,
- Laurent Memery9,
- Carol Robinson10,
- Grace Saba11,
- Richard Sanders12,
- David Siegel13,
- María Villa-Alfageme14 &
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- Lionel Guidi15
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Adrian Martin
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Adrian Martin is a research scientist at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
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Philip Boyd
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Philip Boyd is a professor at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, University of Tasmania, Australia.
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Ken Buesseler
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Ken Buesseler is a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
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Ivona Cetinic
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Ivona Cetinic is an oceanographer in the Universities Space Research Association and the Ocean Ecology Laboratory at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
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Hervé Claustre
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Hervé Claustre is director of research in biogeochemical oceanography at Sorbonne University, CNRS, Villefanche Laboratory of Oceanography, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.
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Sari Giering
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Sari Giering is a research scientist at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
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Stephanie Henson
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Stephanie Henson is a principal scientist at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
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Xabier Irigoien
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Xabier Irigoien is Ikerbasque Research Professor and scientific director in marine ecology at AZTI-Basque Research and Technology Alliance, Pasaia Gipuzkoa, Spain.
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Iris Kriest
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Iris Kriest is a research scientist at GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany.
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Laurent Memery
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Laurent Memery is director of research in environmental marine sciences at LEMAR Laboratory, European Maritime University Institute, Brest, France.
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Carol Robinson
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Carol Robinson is a professor at the Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
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Grace Saba
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Grace Saba is an assistant professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA.
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Richard Sanders
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Richard Sanders is director of the ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre at NORCE, the Norwegian Research Centre and the Bjerknes Centre, Bergen, Norway.
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David Siegel
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David Siegel is a professor at the Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
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María Villa-Alfageme
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María Villa Alfageme is a professor at the Department of Applied Physics, University of Seville, Spain.
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Lionel Guidi
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Lionel Guidi is a research scientist at Sorbonne University, CNRS, Villefanche Laboratory of Oceanography, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.
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Nature 580, 26-28 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00915-7
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