Conventional and technical diving surveys reveal elevated biomass and differing fish community composition from shallow and upper mesophotic zones of a remote United States coral reef

• Roldan C. Muñoz ,

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

  * E-mail: roldan.munoz@noaa.gov

  Affiliation NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8946-0008

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• Christine A. Buckel,

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

  Affiliation NOAA National Ocean Service, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Paula E. Whitfield,

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

  Current address: NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation NOAA National Ocean Service, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Shay Viehman,

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

  Affiliation NOAA National Ocean Service, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Randy Clark,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NOAA National Ocean Service, Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, United States of America

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• J. Christopher Taylor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NOAA National Ocean Service, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Brian P. Degan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NOAA National Ocean Service, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Emma L. Hickerson

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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