Dominance of the scleractinian coral Alveopora japonica in the barren subtidal hard bottom of high-latitude Jeju Island off the south coast of Korea assessed by high-resolution underwater images

• Kyeong-Tae Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Marine Life Science (BC 21 PLUS) and Marine Science Institute, Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea, Jeju Marine Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), Jeju, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1772-4780

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• Hye-Mi Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Marine Life Science (BC 21 PLUS) and Marine Science Institute, Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea

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• Thatchaneshkanth Subramaniam,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Marine Life Science (BC 21 PLUS) and Marine Science Institute, Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea

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• Hyun-Sung Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jeju Marine Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), Jeju, Korea

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• Sang Rul Park,

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

  Affiliation Department of Marine Life Science (BC 21 PLUS) and Marine Science Institute, Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea

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• Chang-Keun Kang,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Shashank Keshavmurthy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skchoi@jejunu.ac.kr (KSC); coralresearchtaiwan@gmail.com (SK)

  Affiliation Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2235-9132

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• Kwang-Sik Choi

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

  * E-mail: skchoi@jejunu.ac.kr (KSC); coralresearchtaiwan@gmail.com (SK)

  Affiliation Department of Marine Life Science (BC 21 PLUS) and Marine Science Institute, Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea

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