About the Authors

Carolyn B. Meyer

Carolyn.meyer@arcadis.com

Affiliation Arcadis, Lakewood, Colorado, United States of America

Joseph S. Meyer

Affiliations Arcadis, Lakewood, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Alex B. Francisco

Affiliation Arcadis, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Jennifer Holder

Affiliation ERM, Carpinteria, California, United States of America

Frederik Verdonck

Affiliation ARCHE, Gent, Belgium

Competing Interests

Initial funding by AFEMS to model lead shot effects at population level could be perceived as a competing interest but the authors changed the models since then and did almost all of the work in this paper on their own time, deciding to address lead shot and poisons. AFEMS did not interfere with the write-up or conclusions in the paper.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CBM JH FV. Performed the experiments: CBM JSM ABF. Analyzed the data: CBM JSM ABF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CBM. Wrote the paper: CBM JSM JH FV.