Gauging the influence of increased search effort on reporting rates of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) strandings following the deepwater horizon oil spill

• Jonathan L. Pitchford ,

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

  * E-mail: jonathan.pitchford@dmr.ms.gov

  Affiliations Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Point, Mississippi, United States of America, The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Gulfport, Mississippi, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1168-5087

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• Michael Garcia,

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

  Affiliation NOVACES LLC, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Eric E. Pulis,

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

  Affiliation The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Gulfport, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Ashley Millan Ambert,

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

  Affiliation The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Gulfport, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Andrew J. Heaton,

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

  Affiliations The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Gulfport, Mississippi, United States of America, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

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• Moby Solangi

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

  Affiliation The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Gulfport, Mississippi, United States of America

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