Long-term occupancy trends in a data-poor dugong population in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.

Prioritizing efforts for conserving rare and threatened species with limited past data and lacking population estimates is predicated on robust assessments of their occupancy rates. This is particularly challenging for elusive, long-lived and wide-ranging marine mammals. In this paper we estimate tr...

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Main Authors: Elrika D'Souza, Vardhan Patankar, Rohan Arthur, Teresa Alcoverro, Nachiket Kelkar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24143180/pdf/?tool=EBI