Spatial variability of Spanish sardine (Sardinella aurita) abundance as related to the upwelling cycle off the southeastern Caribbean Sea

• Digna Rueda-Roa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Digna Rueda-Roa, Jeremy Mendoza, Frank Muller-Karger

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: druedaro@mail.usf.edu

  Affiliation College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4621-009X

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• Jeremy Mendoza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Digna Rueda-Roa, Jeremy Mendoza, Frank Muller-Karger

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

  Affiliation Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, Cumaná, Estado Sucre, Venezuela

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• Frank Muller-Karger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Digna Rueda-Roa, Jeremy Mendoza, Frank Muller-Karger

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

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• Juan José Cárdenas ,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela

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• Alina Achury ,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Estación de Investigaciones Marinas, Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Punta de Piedras, Estado Nueva Esparta, Venezuela

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• Yrene Astor

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Estación de Investigaciones Marinas, Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Punta de Piedras, Estado Nueva Esparta, Venezuela

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