Manatee mortality in Puerto Rico

Environmental Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-198

  Mignucci Giannoni, Antonio A ^a   Montoya Ospina, Ruby A ^b   Jiménez Marrero, Nilda M ^b   Rodríguez López, Martaa ^a   Williams Jr , Ernest H ^c   Bonde, Robert K ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Endangered species conservation and management; Mortality; Puerto Rico; Trichechus manatus

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

MARINE MAMMAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CARCASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MAMMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PUERTO RICO; RESEARCH; SEASHORE;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0033982488     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679910015     Document Type: Article

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