Relating Biogeochemical Provinces to Plankton Diversity: Insight from the Comparison of Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Copepod Communities among Mediterranean Ecoregions.

Sakina-Dorothée Ayata1, Fabio Benedetti2, Leocadio Blanco-Bercial3, Astrid Cornils4, François Guilhaumon5, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi6, Ioanna Siokou-Frangou7, Valentina Tirelli8, Maria Luz Fernandez de Puelles9, Alexandra Gubanova10, Tuba Terbıyık Kurt11, Nondas Christou7, Tanya Zervoudaki7, Alessandra de Olazabal8 and Yesim Ak12, (1)LOV UPMC/CNRS, Villefranche sur mer Cedex, France, (2)UPMC-LOV, France, (3)Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St. George's, Bermuda, (4)Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)UMR MARBEC - UM2/IRD/CNRS, Montpellier, France, (6)Zoological Station Anton Dohrn of Naples, Naples, Italy, (7)Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece, (8)National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics OGS, Trieste, Italy, (9)Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (10)Russian Academy of Sciences, Kovalevsky Institute of Marine Biological Research, Russia, (11)Çukurova University, Department of Marine Sciences, Adana, Turkey, (12)Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey