Biotic and abiotic factors affecting Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) spatiotemporal activity at an important shorebird nesting site in Virginia

• Mikayla N. Call ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mikayla N. Call, Rasheed S. Pongnon

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

  * E-mail: mncall@vt.edu

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1465-6556

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• Rasheed S. Pongnon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mikayla N. Call, Rasheed S. Pongnon

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Christy N. Wails ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CNW and SMK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Sarah M. Karpanty ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CNW and SMK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Kristy C. Lapenta,

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

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Alexandra L. Wilke,

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

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy in Virginia, Nassawadox, Virginia, United States of America

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• Ruth Boettcher,

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

  Affiliation Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, Machipongo, Virginia, United States of America

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• Camille R. Alvino,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• James D. Fraser

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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