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. 2024 Nov 1;19(11):e0312849. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312849

Fig 1. Habitat, location of São Tomé and Príncipe and pictures of BRUVS fieldwork.

Fig 1

A) Marine habitats considered in this study: sand (left), maerl (centre) and rocky reefs (right)–extracted from BRUVS footage (© Fauna & Flora, Fundação Príncipe, Oikos, MARAPA). B) Top left: Location of São Tomé and Príncipe, Bottom right: Bathymetric map of the Gulf of Guinea denoting STP’s Exclusive Economic Zone (solid white line), and Centre: BRUVs deployment locations and sampling area illustrated. (© Bathymetric data: GEBCO and digitised nautical charts, see Supplementary Materials). C) In situ photographs of BRUV deployments (left), São Tomé BRUVS (centre) and Príncipe’s BRUVS (right) (© G. Porriños).