Using a Bayesian network to understand the importance of coastal storms and undeveloped landscapes for the creation and maintenance of early successional habitat

• Sara L. Zeigler ,

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

  * E-mail: szeigler@usgs.gov

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5472-769X

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• Benjamin T. Gutierrez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Emily J. Sturdivant,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Daniel H. Catlin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• James D. Fraser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Anne Hecht,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sarah M. Karpanty,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Nathaniel G. Plant,

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

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5703-5672

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• E. Robert Thieler

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

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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