Melnikov Victor Vladimirovich; Leading researcher in the Department Of the Functioning of Marine Ecosystems of the A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the South Seas of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBSS);1980 Graduated from the Moscow State University, Diploma in Biology (Zoology); Ph.D. in Biological sciences since 1986; Scientific interests: ecology, general biology, zoogeography and taxonomy of macrozooplankton of the Atlantic Ocean; Member of the Russian Geographical Society since 2016; Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences since 2017.