Compensating for geographic variation in detection probability with water depth improves abundance estimates of coastal marine megafauna

• Rie Hagihara ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rie.hagihara@my.jcu.edu.au

  Affiliation College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2715-8655

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• Rhondda E. Jones,

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

  Affiliation College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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• Susan Sobtzick,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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• Christophe Cleguer,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia, Opération Cétacés, Nouméa, New Calédonie, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) ENTROPIE (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université de La Réunion, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Laboratoire d’excellence LabEx, CORAIL, Nouméa, New Calédonie

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• Claire Garrigue,

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

  Affiliations Opération Cétacés, Nouméa, New Calédonie, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) ENTROPIE (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université de La Réunion, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Laboratoire d’excellence LabEx, CORAIL, Nouméa, New Calédonie

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• Helene Marsh

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

  Affiliation College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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