EDIS, 2019 One of Florida's keystone species, manatees help to maintain healthy coastal and riverine ecosystems and are economically important for many coastal communities.
Brittany Hall-Scharf, Armando J. Ubeda
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Winter habitat preferences for Florida manatees and vulnerability to cold. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 To survive cold winter periods most, if not all, Florida manatees rely on warm-water refuges in the southern two-thirds of the Florida peninsula. Most refuges are either warm-water discharges from power plant and natural springs, or passive thermal ...
David W Laist +2 more
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Causes of Mortality for Endangered Antillean Manatees in Cuba [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The Antillean manatee is categorized as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature primarily due to its low abundance. Further declines in abundance are expected due to a group of human related threats that include illegal ...
Anmari Alvarez-Alemán +9 more
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Influence of Manatees' Diving on Their Risk of Collision with Watercraft. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Watercraft pose a threat to endangered Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Mortality from watercraft collisions has adversely impacted the manatee population's growth rate, therefore reducing this threat is an important management goal. To
Holly H Edwards +6 more
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Manatees display diel trends in acoustic activity at two microhabitats in Belize. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Many marine mammals exhibit diel trends in vocal production, which can provide information on habitat use and behavioral activity. In Belize, Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) commonly inhabit small depressions in the substrate or deep ...
Beth Brady +7 more
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Bottlenose Dolphins and Antillean Manatees Respond to Small Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Systems
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) are powerful tools for research and monitoring of wildlife. However, the effects of these systems on most marine mammals are largely unknown, preventing the establishment of guidelines that will minimize animal disturbance.
Brigid Maloney +2 more
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Estimating Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) abundance using passive acoustic methods [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 Manatees are difficult to detect, particularly cryptic populations that inhabit areas with limited water clarity. The effectiveness of using vocal detections to estimate manatee abundance was evaluated in a clear water spring where manatees congregate ...
Athena M. Rycyk +2 more
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Estimating upper bounds for occupancy and number of manatees in areas potentially affected by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform created the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. As part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment process, we applied an innovative modeling approach to obtain upper estimates for occupancy ...
Julien Martin +12 more
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Florida manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris actively consume the sponge Chondrilla caribensis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris Linnaeus 1758) actively selects and consumes the “chicken-liver” sponge Chondrilla caribensis. Manatees ate over 10% of C.
William Fitt
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Endangered Species Research, 2020 Population assessments and species monitoring for many endangered marine megafauna are limited by the challenges of identifying and tracking individuals that live underwater in remote and sometimes inaccessible areas.
Landeo-Yauri, SS +4 more
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