Fick-Child, B.B. Bossart, Gregory D., Rene A. Meisner, S.A. Rommel, Shin-je Ghim, and A. Bennett Jenson. Black line is the median and grey circle the mean. The husbandry and veterinary care of captive Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). The size of the population in Hawaiian waters increased from 800 individuals in 1979 to more than 10,000 individuals in 2005, with the recent population growth rate estimated around 6% (NMFS 2015). Marine mammals and sea turtles comprise 38% of the 163 ESA-listed marine “species”, which includes subspecies and distinct population segments, yet … 76 pp. The recovery of listed species depends ultimately on the adequate implementation of the ESA’s tools and other conservation measures. Unnumbered. Florida manatees and warm water: Proceedings of the Warm-Water Workshop, Jupiter, Florida, August 24-25, 1999. ESA-prompted reductions in off-road-vehicle use and night lighting on nesting beaches have promoted nesting activity [89,90], as has protection of important turtle nesting beaches such as National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) on the Atlantic coast (e.g., Archie Carr NWR, Florida) and the U.S. Caribbean (e.g., Culebra NWR, Puerto Rico; Sandy Point NWR, U.S. Virgin Islands) [42,43,91]. Due the strong recovery of green sea turtles across Florida, NMFS and USFWS downlisted the entire North Atlantic DPS from endangered to threatened in 2016 (Table 1). The Florida Statewide Nesting Beach Survey program, initiated in 1979 (one year after listing) as a cooperative agreement between USFWS and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, now monitors ~215 nesting beaches (~825 miles) across Florida, involving federal, state, and regional institutions as well as several conservation organizations, university scientists, and private citizens [129]. Unnumbered. To assess population trajectories after listing we used several types of models including linear models (lm), generalized linear models (glm), generalized least square models (gls), or generalized additive models (gam) in which population abundance estimates were modeled by running time in years (S2 Table). 2004. Soderqvist, and J.P. Reid. Maisenbacher, M. de Wit, R.L. Between the 18th to early 20th century these groups were substantially depleted [4,54,67,68], in a few cases to extinction such as the Steller’s sea cow [69] and the Caribbean monk seal [70,71]. Edited by E. Hines, J. E. Reynolds III, L. V. Aragones, A. Manatee behavioral response to boats. Aquatic Mammals 42(4): 428-439. doi:10.1578/AM.42.4.2016.428.Access Publication. 2013. Isolation of fungal rDNA from bottlenose dolphin skin infected with Loboa loboi. The Emergence of Whales. Access publication, Leone A, Dark M, Kondo H, Rotstein DS, Kiupel M, Walsh MT, Erlacher-Reid C, Gordon N, Conway JA. 2017. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jacksonville, FL. Deutsch, C. J. and Barlas, M.E. Barlas, M. E., C. J. Deutsch, M. de Wit, and L. I. Ward-Geiger (editors). The ESA defines an endangered species as “in danger of extinction throughout all or significant portion of its range” while threatened species are “likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future throughout all or significant portion of its range” (16 U.S.C. 2017. Survey research on Florida boaters and manatee management. The Journal of Parasitology 84(4): 835-839. 2004. Skin density and its influence on buoyancy in the manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), and bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Endang Species Res 26:127-136, Gowan TA, Ortega-Ortiz JG (2014) Wintering Habitat Model for the North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the Southeastern United States. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Unexpected vectors of brevetoxins during marine mammal mortalities. Langtimm, E.D.Swain, L.E. Vascular adaptations for heat conservation in the tail of Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Pabst. North Western; and S.W: Southwest. : Western North. Publishes research on all aspects of the biology of mammals, including: mammalian behavior, conserv For example, the number of nesting females of green sea turtle at East Island of the French Frigate Shoals in Hawaii (from the Central North Pacific DPS) increased at ~13% per year from 101 individuals in 1978 to 492 nesting females in 2015 (Fig 4; Table 3). 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