Presence-absence records for four cold-water coral taxa on the seamounts of Cabo Verde (NW Africa)

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Presence-absence records for four cold-water coral (CWC) taxa (Enallopsammia rostrata, Acanella arbuscula, Metallogorgia spp. and Paramuricea spp.) were gathered to conduct distribution models on seamounts (Cadamosto, Nola, Senghor and Cabo Verde) of the Cabo Verde archipelago (NW Africa), covering a bathymetric range from 2100 to 750 m water depth. Data were extracted from video footage collected with Remotely Operated Vehicles during the M80/3 Meteor (2010) and the iMirabilis2 (2021) research expeditions. Video data from the iMirabilis2 expedition was analysed, quantitively, using the open-source software BIIGLE (Langenkämper et al. 2017). Observations from five continuous 1 to 2 km-long video transects between 2000 and 1400 m depth at Cadamosto Seamount were converted into presence-absence data points. Similar data were not available for the seamounts explored during M80/3 Meteor. However, all the available images and short video clips from that expedition were analysed to identify presence and absence points for each of the four target CWC taxa. All the available presence/absence data from the two expeditions was transformed into one point per grid cell of a 100 m resolution bathymetry grid, with the prevalence of the presence records over the absence records, in grid cells where both categories overlapped.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.963704
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13896
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.2312/cr_m80_3
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6352141
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00083
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.963704
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Creator Vinha, Beatriz ORCID logo; Hansteen, Thor H ORCID logo; Huvenne, Veerle A I ORCID logo; Orejas, Covadonga ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 818123 https://doi.org/10.3030/818123 Integrated Assessment of Atlantic Marine Ecosystems in Space and Time
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 10855 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-25.540W, 14.634S, -21.875E, 17.240N); Cadamosto Seamount, Cabo Verde; Cape Verde
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-01-02T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-08-21T00:00:00Z