Michael W. Beck,^* Robert D. Brumbaugh,^** Laura Airoldi,^*** Alvar Carranza,^**** Loren D. Coen,^***** Christine Crawford,^****** Omar Defeo,^**** Graham J. Edgar, Boze Hancock,^******* Matthew C. Kay,^******** Hunter S. Lenihan,^******** Mark W. Luckenbach,^********* Caitlyn L. Toropova,^********** Guofan Zhang,^*********** Ximing Guo<sup>************


*</sup>Michael W. Beck (mbeck@tnc.org) is lead marine scientist with the Global Marine Team of The Nature Conservancy at the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz.
^**Robert D. Brumbaugh is a senior scientist with the Global Marine Team of The Nature Conservancy, in Summerland Key, Florida.
^***Laura Airoldi is a researcher at Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali, Università di Bologna, in Ravenna, Italy.
^****Alvar Carranza is a graduate student and Omar Defeo is a professor at the Marine Science Unit, Ecology Department, Faculty of Sciences, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
^*****Loren D. Coen is director of the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation Marine Laboratory, in Sanibel, Florida.
^******Christine Crawford is senior research fellow and Graham J. Edgar is associate professor at the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, at the University of Tasmania, in Hobart.
^*******Boze Hancock is a scientist with the Global Marine Team of The Nature Conservancy at the University of Rhode Island, in Narragansett.
^********Matthew C. Kay is graduate student, and Hunter S. Lenihan is an associate professor, at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
^*********Mark W. Luckenbach is a professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, in Wachapreague, Virginia.
^**********Caitlyn L. Toropova is a program coordinator with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, in Washington, DC.
^***********Guofan Zhang is a professor at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Qingdao, Shandong.
^************Ximing Guo is a professor at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, in Port Norris, New Jersey.