Enhancing fish Underwater Visual Census to move forward assessment of fish assemblages: An application in three Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas

• Giulia Prato ,

  * E-mail: giuliaprato.mi@gmail.com

  Current address: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Italia, Rome, Italy

  Affiliation Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose, Avenue Valrose, Nice, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0158-2124

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• Pierre Thiriet,

  Affiliations Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose, Avenue Valrose, Nice, France, UMR 7208 BOREA—MNHN, CNRS, UPMC, IRD 207, UCN, UA—Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, DMPA, UMR BOREA, Paris, France, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Station Marine de Dinard—CRESCO, Dinard, France

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• Antonio Di Franco,

  Affiliations Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose, Avenue Valrose, Nice, France, CRIOBE, USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE, University of Perpignan, CNRS, Perpignan, France, Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio 9, Rome, Italy

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• Patrice Francour

  Affiliation Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose, Avenue Valrose, Nice, France

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