The special MAR-ECO issue of Deep Sea Research II will be published in the 2007 volume. Following a peer-review process and revisions, the full set of papers was submitted to the editor in chief on 10 June 2007. The set includes 22 titles, all based on the 2003-2005 field phase of the project. This is the first comprehensive presentation of MAR-ECO results, but only a sub-set of all the papers and presentations listed in the steadily growing publication archive. Collectively the DSR II papers describe MAR-ECO's background, strategies, technologies and scientific results. John D.M. Gordon, Odd Aksel Bergstad, Tone Falkenhaug Guest editors |