Dredging activity and associated sound have negligible effects on adult Atlantic sturgeon migration to spawning habitat in a large coastal river

• Matthew Balazik ,

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

  * E-mail: Matthew.T.Balazik@usace.army.mil

  Affiliations Engineer Research and Development Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, United States of America, Rice Rivers Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Charles City, VA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4705-9961

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• Michael Barber,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Rice Rivers Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Charles City, VA, United States of America

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• Safra Altman,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Engineer Research and Development Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, United States of America

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• Kevin Reine,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Engineer Research and Development Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, United States of America

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• Alan Katzenmeyer,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Engineer Research and Development Center, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, United States of America

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• Aaron Bunch,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Charles City, VA, United States of America

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• Greg Garman

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rice Rivers Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Charles City, VA, United States of America

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