Fine-scale vertical relationships between environmental conditions and sound scattering layers in the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic

• Ramilla Assunção ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramilla Assunção, Arnaud Bertrand

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

  * E-mail: ramillavieira@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Laboratório de Oceanografia Física Estuarina e Costeira, Departamento de Oceanografia, UFPE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, LEMAR, UBO, IFREMER, IRD, CNRS, Technopole Brest Iroise, Plouzané, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5495-6858

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• Anne Lebourges-Dhaussy ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ALD, ACS, GR, AA, LNE, and SQ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation LEMAR, UBO, IFREMER, IRD, CNRS, Technopole Brest Iroise, Plouzané, France

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• Alex C. da Silva ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ALD, ACS, GR, AA, LNE, and SQ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Oceanografia Física Estuarina e Costeira, Departamento de Oceanografia, UFPE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3598

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• Gildas Roudaut ,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

  ¶‡ ALD, ACS, GR, AA, LNE, and SQ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation LEMAR, UBO, IFREMER, IRD, CNRS, Technopole Brest Iroise, Plouzané, France

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• Alejandro Ariza ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ALD, ACS, GR, AA, LNE, and SQ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations MARBEC, Université Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France, DECOD (Ecosystem Dynamics and Sustainability), IFREMER, INRAe, Institut-Agro—Agrocampus Ouest, Nantes, France

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• Leandro N. Eduardo ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ALD, ACS, GR, AA, LNE, and SQ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations MARBEC, Université Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-4175

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• Syumara Queiroz ,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ ALD, ACS, GR, AA, LNE, and SQ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratório de Oceanografia Física Estuarina e Costeira, Departamento de Oceanografia, UFPE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9408-8693

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• Arnaud Bertrand

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramilla Assunção, Arnaud Bertrand

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

  Affiliations Laboratório de Oceanografia Física Estuarina e Costeira, Departamento de Oceanografia, UFPE, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, MARBEC, Université Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

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