Driving the blue fleet: Temporal variability and drivers behind bluebottle (Physalia physalis) beachings off Sydney, Australia

• Natacha Bourg ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: natacha.bourg@univ-tln.fr

  Current address: Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Université de Toulon, Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, Toulon, France

  Affiliation Coastal and Regional Oceanography Laboratory, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1228-9529

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• Amandine Schaeffer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Coastal and Regional Oceanography Laboratory, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Centre for Marine Science and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Paulina Cetina-Heredia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: College of Natural and Computational Sciences - Department of Natural Science, Hawai’i Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

  Affiliation Coastal and Regional Oceanography Laboratory, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Jasmin C. Lawes,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Surf Life Saving Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6652-3053

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• Daniel Lee

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Coastal and Regional Oceanography Laboratory, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7054-4308

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