Characterizing the benthic community in Maryland’s offshore wind energy areas using a towed camera sled: Developing a method to reduce the effort of image analysis and community description

• Wilmelie Cruz-Marrero ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: wcruz-marrero@umes.edu

  Affiliation Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1756-6919

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• Daniel W. Cullen,

  Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland, United States of America

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• Najja R. Gay,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Biology Department, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Bradley G. Stevens

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

  Affiliation Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland, United States of America

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