Deep-sea biodiversity at the extremes of the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges with implications for conservation

• Alan M. Friedlander ,

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

  * E-mail: alan.friedlander@hawaii.edu

  Affiliations Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America, Hawaiʿi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʿi, Kāneʻohe, Hawaiʿi, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4858-006X

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• Whitney Goodell,

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

  Affiliations Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America, Exploration Technology Lab, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Jonatha Giddens,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Exploration Technology Lab, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4999-2245

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• Erin E. Easton,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile, School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America

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• Daniel Wagner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Conservation International, Center for Oceans, Arlington, VA, United States of America

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