Patterns of association and distribution of estuarine-resident common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in North Carolina, USA

• Aleta A. Hohn ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Aleta.hohn@noaa.gov

  Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, at the NOAA Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9992-7062

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• Antoinette M. Gorgone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, at the NOAA Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Barbie L. Byrd,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Protected Resources Program North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Morehead City, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Kyle W. Shertzer,

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

  Affiliation Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Tomo Eguchi

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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