About the Authors

Maurice G. Estes Jr.

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

maury.estes@nsstc.uah.edu

Affiliation Atmospheric and Earth Sciences Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

Ruth H. Carmichael

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth H. Carmichael, Xiongwen Chen

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States of America

Xiongwen Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth H. Carmichael, Xiongwen Chen

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences Department, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, Normal, Alabama, United States of America

Sean C. Carter

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Ecosystems and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.