Figure 2. Nesting grounds and tropical cyclones tracks.

(a) Nest ground locations of Snowy Plovers from 2002 to 2010 (dots) and tracks of the tropical cyclones (tropical depression (TD), tropical storm (TS), hurricane (H)) in the period 2001–2009 from [33]. An exploded view of the nest ground occurrences is proposed to avoid the overlaps of their locations along the coast for every year. The color match is between the nests and the cyclones in the previous year. (b) 1851–2009 hourly interpolated tracks/intensity [54] of the North Atlantic tropical cyclone database [33] that provides daily intensities. With typical clockwise trajectories, Atlantic basin cyclones form in the Atlantic ocean, make landfall in Central-North America, and return back into the ocean dissipating their energy [34], [48]. (1), (2), and (3) are the Northwest Florida, Apalachee Bay, and Southwest Florida regions in which the study is performed (see Table 1).