About the Authors

Paul W. Sammarco

psammarco@lumcon.edu

Affiliation Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, Louisiana, United States of America

Kevin B. Strychar

Affiliation Annis Water Resources Institute, Grand Valley State University, Muskegon, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contribution to conception and design and interpretation of data: PWS KBS. Acquisition of data: KBS. Drafting the article and revising it critically for important intellectual content: PWS KBS. Final approval of this version: PWS KBS. Conceived and designed the experiments: PWS KBS. Performed the experiments: KBS. Analyzed the data: PWS KBS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KBS PWS. Wrote the paper: PWS KBS.