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From: Investigating the benthic megafauna in the eastern Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (north-east Pacific) based on distribution models predicted with random forest

Figure 5

Bathymetric map of the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone in the north-east Pacific with the study area, which is the German contract area for polymetallic nodule exploration, marked in magenta (a); a more detailed bathymetric map of the German contract area including the positions of the deep-sea images used in this study obtained at five cruises between 2010 and 2018 (c); distribution of the k-means clusters based on bathymetry used to obtain random subsamples of images including different bathymetric conditions (b).

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