Seamounts_Oasis_New_Caledonia_BRUVS

This dataset contains BRUVS (Baited Remote Underwater Video Station) data for 224 video stations collected in seamounts, continental slopes and coral reefs of New-Caledonia in 2019 and 2020. The data were collected under permits to Laurent Vigliola by the Government of New-Caledonia (permit N° 2019-733/GNC, 2020-503/GNC and 2020-1077/GNC), the Southern Province of New Caledonia (permit N° 898-2019/ARR/DENV, 3066-2019/ARR/DENV, 844-2020/ARR/DDDT and 1955-2020/ARR/DDDT) and the Northern Province of New Caledonia (permit N° 609011/2019/DEPART/JJC , 609011-18/2019/DEPART/JJC and 609011-39/2020/DEPART/JJC). Collection was performed during the SEAMOUNTS and REEF3.0 projects led by Laurent Vigliola. The data contains the outputs of BRUVS video analyses (species id, abundance, size, biomass) as described in Baletaud et al. 2023. The metadata contains information on the stations, sampling locations and associated environmental variables.