An assessment of temporal, spatial and taxonomic trends in harmful algal toxin exposure in stranded marine mammals from the U.S. New England coast

• Spencer E. Fire ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sfire@fit.edu

  Affiliation Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1657-790X

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• Andrea Bogomolni,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Robert A. DiGiovanni Jr.,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, Hampton Bays, New York, United States of America

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• Greg Early,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Integrated Statistics, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Tod A. Leighfield,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Keith Matassa,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance, Laguna Niguel, California, United States of America

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• Glenn A. Miller,

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

  Affiliation Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States of America

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• Kathleen M. T. Moore,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Fund for Animal Welfare, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Michael Moore,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Misty Niemeyer,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Fund for Animal Welfare, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Katie Pugliares,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Zhihong Wang,

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

  Affiliations CSS Corporation, Fairfax, VA, United States of America, Under Contract to National Ocean Service, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Frederick W. Wenzel

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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