Alternative method for assessment of southwestern Atlantic humpback whale population status

• Guilherme A. Bortolotto ,

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

  * E-mail: bortolotto.ga@gmail.com

  Affiliations Sea Mammal Research Unit, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom, Centre for Research into Ecological and Environment Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom, Instituto Aqualie, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5343-6575

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• Len Thomas,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Research into Ecological and Environment Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

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• Philip Hammond,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sea Mammal Research Unit, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom, Centre for Research into Ecological and Environment Modelling, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

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• Alexandre N. Zerbini

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto Aqualie, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies, University of Washington and Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, Washington State, United States of America, Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research, Seabeck, Washington State, United States of America

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