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Understanding causes of morbidity and mortality in Southern Hemisphere small Odontoceti: a scoping review

open access: yesMammal Review, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 2025.
This review identifies key causes of morbidity and mortality in Southern Hemisphere small Odontoceti, highlighting significant anthropogenic threats and the enhanced need for conservation strategies. Key findings include high rates of entanglements and a diverse range of infectious pathogens. Abstract Marine mammals serve as sentinels for environmental
Rebecca Souter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Actualización de datos sobre la distribución del manatí (Trichechus manatus manatus) en los sistemas fluvio-lagunares que conectan con la laguna de Términos, Campeche, a través de la participación comunitaria

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2019
El manatí (Trichechus manatus manatus) es un mamífero acuático que está en peligro de extinción. Una población importante de esta especie se encuentra en los sistemas fluvio-lagunares que conectan con la laguna de Términos, Campeche, en donde también ...
Paloma Ladrón de Guevara-Porras   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of aerial survey and aerophotogrammetry methods in monitoring manatee populations [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
We evaluated the use of strip-transect survey methods for manatees through a series of replicate aerial surveys in the Banana River, Brevard County, Florida, during summer 1993 and summer 1994.
Ackerman, Bruce B.   +3 more
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Automatically Counting Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) from Drone Images Using Object-Based Image Analysis

open access: yesAquatic Mammals
Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) require frequent and extensive surveys to inform conservation efforts. Crewed aircraft surveys can be costly, dangerous, and logistically complex.
Esteban N. Rodofili, V. Lecours
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How much seagrass does a dugong need? Metabolic rate of live wild dugongs, Dugong dugon, determined through indirect calorimetry (oxygen consumption)

open access: yesMarine Mammal Science, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Deterioration of seagrass beds worldwide has raised concern about the future of dugongs because almost all aspects of their life history depend on availability of seagrass. Understanding their energy metabolism and consequently how much seagrass they need will inform protective conservation strategies for dugongs. This study determined resting
Janet M. Lanyon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using small drones to photo-identify Antillean manatees: a novel method for monitoring an endangered marine mammal in the Caribbean Sea

open access: yesEndangered 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
doaj   +1 more source

Grazing by manatees excludes both new and established wild celery transplants: Implications for restoration in Kings Bay, FL, USA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We conducted a field experiment between August 2001 and February 2002 in Kings Bay, FL, USA, designed to determine whether the amount of time allowed for wild celery (Vallisneria americana Michx) transplants to establish altered the effect of ...
Frazer, T.K.   +2 more
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First Successful Capture and Satellite Tracking of a West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Panama: Feasibility of Capture and Telemetry Techniques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It is currently unknown how important the Central American countries south of Belize are as a link between manatee populations in the north (Belize and Mexico) and populations in South America.
Espinoza-Marin, Carlos   +5 more
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DOS NUEVOS REGISTROS DE CRUSTÁCEOS ASOCIADOS A LA PIEL DEL MANATÍ Trichechus manatus (CHORDATA, MAMMALIA, SIRENIA) DE LA REGIÓN NOROCCIDENTAL DE CUBA

open access: yesRevista de Investigaciones Marinas, 2023
Se presentan dos especies de crustáceos asociados a la piel del manatí Trichechus manatus, en una localidad de la costa noroccidental cubana. Un cirripedio del género Chelonibia (Cirripedia, Sessillia) y un tanaidáceo del género Sinelobus (Crustacea ...
Manuel Ortiz   +2 more
doaj  

Summary of 1987 and 1988 manatee aerial surveys at Kennedy Space Center [PDF]

open access: yes
Aerial surveys of manatees conducted since 1977 at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) have provided a very useful and cost effective monitoring tool in the assessment of abundance and distribution of manatees in the northern Banana River.
Provancha, Jane A., Provancha, Mark J.
core   +1 more source

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