Impact of exotic macroalga on shorebirds varies with foraging specialization and spatial scale

• Alice F. Besterman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alice F. Besterman, Michael L. Pace

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: afb5kg@virginia.edu, abesterman@whrc.org

  Current address: Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America; Buzzards Bay Coalition, New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2311-4281

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• Sarah M. Karpanty ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

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• Michael L. Pace

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alice F. Besterman, Michael L. Pace

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

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