Abundance of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) along the south coast of South Africa

• O. Alejandra Vargas-Fonseca ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alejandra7979@hotmail.com

  Current address: Department of Oceanography, Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Marine Apex Predator Research Unit (MAPRU), Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9131-4624

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• Stephen P. Kirkman,

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

  Affiliation Branch: Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), Cape Town, South Africa

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• W. Chris Oosthuizen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Marine Apex Predator Research Unit (MAPRU), Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa

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• Thibaut Bouveroux,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Dauphin Island Sea Lab, University of South Alabama, Alabama, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Marine Apex Predator Research Unit (MAPRU), Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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• Vic Cockcroft,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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• Danielle S. Conry,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Department of Zoology and Entomology, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Marine Apex Predator Research Unit (MAPRU), Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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• Pierre A. Pistorius

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

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Marine Apex Predator Research Unit (MAPRU), Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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