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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2016 A sirenian rib has been recovered at Motta San Giovanni (Reggio Calabria) in the “Floresta Calcarenites”, a Formation cropping out in Sicily and Calabria and dated late Burdigalian-Langhian.
GIUSEPPE CARONE +2 more
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Animals, 2023 Marine mammals are divided into three groups, with similar adaptations resulting from their aquatic lifestyle: sirenians, pinnipeds, and cetaceans. The present work focused on the South American fur seal, or Arctocephalus australis, a carnivore included ...
Ignacio Molpeceres-Diego +7 more
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Bushmeat and bycatch: the sum of the parts [PDF]
, 2007 In many developing countries, the killing of wild animals for commercial purposes (the bushmeat trade) is a significant factor in the reduction of biodiversity, and probably represents a major threat to the survival of many more populations than we know.
Clapham, P., Van Waerebeek, K.
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Sea cows (manatees, dugongs) are the only living marine mammals to feed solely on aquatic plants. Unlike whales or dolphins (Cetacea), the earliest evolutionary history of sirenians is poorly documented, and limited to a few fossils including skulls and ...
Julien Benoit +9 more
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SIRENIA FOSSILS FROM QOM FORMATION (BURDIGALIAN) OF THE KABUDAR AHANG AREA, NORTHWEST IRAN
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2016 Fossil remains of sirenians (Mammalia; Dugongidae) are reported from the late early Miocene (Burdigalian) Qom Formation near the town of Shirin Su, northwest Kabudar Ahang region, west of Tehran, Iran. The fossils consist of partial postcranial skeletons
NASROLLAH ABBASSI +3 more
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Local competition and metapopulation processes drive long-term seagrass-epiphyte population dynamics [PDF]
, 2013 It is well known that ecological processes such as population regulation and natural enemy interactions potentially occur over a range of spatial scales, and there is a substantial body of literature developing theoretical understanding of the interplay ...
Bull, James C. +4 more
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2010 This study describes the morphological, morphometric and ultrastructural characteristics of the Amazonian manatee Trichechus inunguis (Natterer, 1883) spermatozoon. The spermatozoa were obtained from a urine sample of an adult T.
Rodrigo S. Amaral +4 more
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Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions. [PDF]
Ecol LettWe present a new trait‐based framework to quantify spatial functional insurance of distinct ecological functions amongst ecological communities. We identify communities that disproportionately insure (functional sources) or depend on (functional sinks) neighbour communities.
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ON A SKULL OF A SIRENIAN FROM THE EARLY PLIOCENE OF SIENA, TUSCANY
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2020 A fine skull of a sirenian from Early Pliocene littoral sands with Late Ruscinian terrestrial mammals near Siena is referred to Metaxitherium gervaisi (Capellini, 1872); it provides detailed information on the characters of this species, which was ...
DANIELA CANOCCHI
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Identification of alimentary components of Antillean manatee diet in the Northeast of Brazil [PDF]
Biotemas, 2008 The manatees are considered to be opportunist herbivors, consuming a great amount of alimentary items. The aim of the present study was to identify the alimentary components of the diet of Antillean manatees in free life in the northeastern region of ...
Daiane Garcia Anzolin +3 more
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