Environmental factors and occurrence of horseshoe crabs in the northcentral Gulf of Mexico

• Maurice G. Estes Jr. ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maury.estes@nsstc.uah.edu

  Affiliation Atmospheric and Earth Sciences Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5251-2153

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• Ruth H. Carmichael ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth H. Carmichael, Xiongwen Chen

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island, Alabama, United States of America

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• Xiongwen Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth H. Carmichael, Xiongwen Chen

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

  Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences Department, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, Normal, Alabama, United States of America

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• Sean C. Carter

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystems and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, United States of America

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