Table 2. Comparison of peak dolphin strandings to peak water flow and temperature declines during January – March 2011.

	Julian week of 2011
	January				February				March
Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Peak strandings (all)					X			X				X
Peak strandings (perinatal)								X
Peak water flow	X					X				X	X
Temperature decline (AL)		X				X				X
Temperature decline (GOM)						X

AL  =  sites near Mobile Bay, Alabama during January – March 2011 and correspond to data in Fig. 3A. GOM  =  Gulf-wide (Fig. 5) for the same period.