Microbial and small zooplankton communities predict density of baleen whales in the southern California Current Ecosystem

• Erin V. Satterthwaite ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erin V. Satterthwaite, Trevor D. Ruiz

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: esatterthwaite@ucsd.edu

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0177-7770

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• Trevor D. Ruiz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erin V. Satterthwaite, Trevor D. Ruiz

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Statistics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1452-2542

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• Nastassia V. Patin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8522-7682

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• Michaela N. Alksne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Len Thomas,

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

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

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• Julie Dinasquet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Robert H. Lampe,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Microbial and Environmental Genomics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0578-3935

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• Katherine G. Chan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Statistics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America

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• Nicholas A. Patrick,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Statistics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, United States of America

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• Andrew E. Allen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliations Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Microbial and Environmental Genomics Group, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Simone Baumann-Pickering,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Brice X. Semmens

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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