About the Authors

Tristan M. Baecklund

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tristanbaecklund@trentu.ca

Affiliation Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada

Michael E. Donaldson

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael E. Donaldson, Karsten Hueffer, Christopher J. Kyle

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada

Karsten Hueffer

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael E. Donaldson, Karsten Hueffer, Christopher J. Kyle

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States of America

Christopher J. Kyle

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael E. Donaldson, Karsten Hueffer, Christopher J. Kyle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, Forensic Science Department, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, Natural Resources DNA Profiling & Forensic Centre, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.