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Exploration of these ecosystems dates back several decades, but our knowledge remained extremely limited until about a decade ago, when a renewed interest resulted in the establishment of a rapidly growing research community. Here, we present the \u2018mesophotic.org\u2019 database, a comprehensive and curated repository of scientific literature on mesophotic ecosystems. Through both manually curated and automatically extracted metadata, the repository facilitates rapid retrieval of available information about particular topics (e.g. taxa or geographic regions), exploration of spatial\/temporal trends in research and identification of knowledge gaps. The repository can be queried to comprehensively obtain available data to address large-scale questions and guide future research directions. Overall, the \u2018mesophotic.org\u2019 repository provides an independent and open-source platform for the ever-growing research community working on MCEs and TMEs to collate and expedite our understanding of the occurrence, composition and functioning of these ecosystems.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Database URL: http:\/\/mesophotic.org\/<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/database\/baz140","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,19]],"date-time":"2019-11-19T04:33:37Z","timestamp":1574138017000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"2019","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6747-6044","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pim","family":"Bongaerts","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA"},{"name":"Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia"}]},{"given":"Gonzalo","family":"Perez-Rosales","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia"},{"name":"PSL Research University: EPHE-UPVD-CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Universit\u00e9 de Perpignan, Perpignan 66860, France"}]},{"given":"Veronica Z","family":"Radice","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia"},{"name":"ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3028-8653","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gal","family":"Eyal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia"},{"name":"The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel"}]},{"given":"Andrea","family":"Gori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, Universit\u00e0 del Salento, Lecce 73100, Italy"},{"name":"Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ci\u00e8ncies Ambientals, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain"}]},{"given":"Erika","family":"Gress","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nekton Foundation, Oxford, OX5 1PF, UK"}]},{"given":"Nicholas M","family":"Hammerman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia"}]},{"given":"Alejandra","family":"Hernandez-Agreda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA"}]},{"given":"Jack","family":"Laverick","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3SZ, UK"}]},{"given":"Paul","family":"Muir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia"},{"name":"Queensland Museum, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3143-1474","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hudson","family":"Pinheiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0768-1286","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Richard L","family":"Pyle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Bernice P. 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