Comparing demersal megafaunal species diversity along the depth gradient within the South Aegean and Cretan Seas (Eastern Mediterranean)

• Panagiota Peristeraki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: notap@hcmr.gr

  Affiliations Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Biology Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8608-078X

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• George Tserpes,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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• Nikolaos Lampadariou,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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• Kostantinos I. Stergiou

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Aghios Kosmas, Athens, Greece, Laboratory of Ichthyology, Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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