The relationship between observational scale and explained variance in benthic communities

• Alison M. Flanagan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alison M. Flanagan, Robert M. Cerrato

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

  * E-mail: alisonmflanagan@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1769-1536

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• Roger D. Flood ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Michael G. Frisk ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Corey D. Garza ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, California, United States of America

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• Glenn R. Lopez ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Nicole P. Maher ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, Long Island Chapter, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

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• Robert M. Cerrato

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alison M. Flanagan, Robert M. Cerrato

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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