Large-scale assessment of benthic communities across multiple marine protected areas using an autonomous underwater vehicle

• Renata Ferrari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Renata Ferrari, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: renata.ferrari@sydney.edu.au

  Affiliations School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Institute of Marine Science and The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australian Institute of Marine Sciences, Townsville, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5056-1178

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• Ezequiel M. Marzinelli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Renata Ferrari, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli

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

  Affiliations Sydney Institute of Marine Science and The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation & Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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• Camila Rezende Ayroza,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Alan Jordan,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia

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• Will F. Figueira,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Institute of Marine Science and The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Maria Byrne,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Institute of Marine Science and The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Hamish A. Malcolm,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

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• Stefan B. Williams,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sydney Institute of Marine Science and The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Peter D. Steinberg

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sydney Institute of Marine Science and The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation & Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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