DATASET From the Reef to the Ocean: Revealing the Acoustic Range of the Biophony of a Coral Reef (Moorea Island, French Polynesia)

Dataset corresponding to the article "From the Reef to the Ocean: Revealing the Acoustic Range of the Biophony of a Coral Reef (Moorea Island, French Polynesia)". 90 sites were recorded from the reef crest to 10 km in the open ocean off Moorea Island (French Polynesia) in 2016. Recordings were realized with drifting antennas made of a floater and an autonomous recorder EA-SDA14 (RTSys®, Caudan, France) connected to a wideband low-noise hydrophone HTI-92 (High Tech Inc., Long Beach, MS, USA) with a sensitivity of −155 ± 3 dB re 1 V µPa−1 and a flat frequency response from 2 Hz to 50 kHz. Column Definition A Directory: unique code for each deployment B Measure: unique code for each set of deployment (one measure contains several directory) C GPS waypoint of the beginning of the deployment D GPS waypoint of the end of the deployment E Bathymetry (depth, in m) at the beginning of the deployment F Bathymetry (depth, in m) at the end of the deployment G Longitude at the beginning of the deployment H Latitude at the beginning of the deployment I Longitude at the end of the deployment J Latitude at the end of the deployment K Date (DD-MM-YY) L Local time on the GPS (UTC−10) at the beginning of the deployment M Local time on the GPS (UTC−10) at the end of the deployment N Transect code O Daytime or nighttime P Targeted distance to the coast (in m) Q Distance to the coast (in m, mean) R Distance to the coast (in m, at the beginning of the deployment) S Distance to the coast (in m, at the end of the deployment) T Drifting distance U Tangential drift V Drift in percentage W Weather condition X Remarks