Dugong dugon
Long-distance oceanic movement of a solitary dugong (Dugong dugon) to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
... male dugong (Dugong dugon) to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (12° 12' S, 96° 54' E), Indian ...The dugong arrived in June 2002 after travelling more than 1,000 km across deep open ocean, during ...
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Using parallel regional- and local-scale initiatives to inform conservation management of rare wildlife: a case study of the dugong Dugong dugon in Sabah, Malaysia
... the dugong Dugong dugon at the geopolitical scale of the state of Sabah in east ...scale. Dugong populations in Sabah are small and clumped, and urgently require management intervention at ...
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Dugong dugon feeding in tropical Australian seagrass meadows: implications for conservation planning
... of dugong feeding in the subtropical, subtidal meadows of south-east Queensland suggest that dugong feeding preferences are based on the nutritional quality and digestibility of seagrass as a food source ...
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Sighting and stranding reports of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) and Dugongs (Dugong dugon) in Kep and Kampot, Cambodia
... In September 2017, The Cambodian Marine Mammal Conservation Project 31.. (CMMCP) was established to fill marine mammal knowledge gaps in Cambodian waters and 32.[r] ...
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Using a genetic approach to optimise dugong (Dugong dugon) conservation management
... 1.3 PRINCIPAL FINDINGS • The hypervariable region 1 of mtDNA sequence from 103 dugongs from Australia, West Indian Ocean and Asia indicated three haplotype clusters corresponding to geog[r] ...
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Scientific Report Part I. National Strategy and Action Plan for the Dugong in Indonesia.
... The dugong (Dugong dugon), by local Indonesian peo- ple also referred to as sakoko ka kaot (pig of the sea), ikan duyung (dugong fish) or babi laut (pig of the sea) has been recorded in ...
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A low-cost solution for documenting distribution and abundance of endangered marine fauna and impacts from fisheries
... (Dugong dugon) are seagrass-dependent medium-sized marine mammals found in the coastal and island waters of more than 38 Indo-west Pacific tropical and sub-tropical countries, only eight of which were ...
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Occurrence and conservation of the dugong (Sirenia: Dugongidae) in New South Wales
... Recent sightings of dugongs well beyond the southern limit of their accepted range (~27°S) on the Australian east coast prompted a review of past records of dugongs and their current conservation status in New South ...
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Prioritising areas for dugong conservation in a marine protected area using a spatially explicit population model
... (Dugong dugon) inhabit the shallow protected waters of the GBRWHA, and were an explicit reason for the region’s World Heritage ...explicit dugong population model can be used to prioritise ...
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Characteristics of traditional dugong and green turtle fisheries in Torres Strait: opportunities for management
... (Dugong dugon) and green turtles (Chelonia mydas) is a complex social and ecological ...Strait dugong and green turtle fisheries needs to include social–ecological considerations and involve Torres ...
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Do marine protected areas in the Red Sea afford protection to dugongs and sea turtles?
... (Dugong dugon) and most sea turtles are threatened by gill nets and other human activities ...important dugong and sea turtle habitat, encouraging fishers to adopt fishing gear that poses less risk ...
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Quick fix GPS technology highlights risk to dugongs moving between protected areas
... the dugong movement corridor between Moreton and Hervey Bays is close to the coast, a hypothesis not confirmed by nearly 30 yr of dugong satel- lite tracking using platform transmitter terminal (PTT) ...1 ...
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Integrating traditional ecological knowledge and fisheries management in the Torres Strait, Australia: the catalytic role of turtles and dugong as cultural keystone species
... and dugong (Dugong dugon) behavior, physiology, and interannual variations in abundance, traditional fishing technology such as fish drives and poisons, and complex customary marine tenure and access ...
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Spatial and temporal variation in the effects of climatic variables on Dugong calf production
... (Dugong dugon) classified as calves and four climatic drivers (rainfall anomaly, Southern Oscillation El Ni ñ o Index [SOI], NINO ...high dugong density. Dugong and calf data were obtained ...
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New tools to identify the location of seagrass meadows: marine grazers as habitat indicators
... FIGURE 1 | The use of green turtles and dugongs as habitat indicators. (A) A green turtle (Chelonia mydas) (B) A dugong (Dugong dugon). Both species feed on seagrasses and so the location of their ...
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... Abstract: Dugong Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) is the only herbivorous marine mammal distributed along the tropical and subtropical oceans of the Indo-Pacific ...of Dugong on the Halodule ...
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Condition, status and trends and projected futures of the dugong in the Northern Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait; including identification and evaluation of the key threats and evaluation of available management options to improve its status.
... in dugong numbers, despite long-standing concern about the sustainability of the traditional harvest of dugongs in this region (Hudson 1986, Johannes and McFarlane 1991, Heinsohn et ...of dugong habitat has ...
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The spatial ecology of dugongs: applications to conservation management
... a dugong foraging for high biomass seagrass at low-tide would not need to move into the deepest part of the habitat (>4 ...on dugong spatial association with biomass and nitrogen and starch ...
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Indigenous Australians and Dugongs in the Southern Great Barrier Reef: Legal Remedies
... For the purposes of this paper, it may be assumed that all interests in dugong hunt- ing held by the Indigenous peoples of the southern Great Barrier Reef arise under traditional laws..[r] ...
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Family Dugongidae (Dugong)
... Conservation Management Plan for Eastern South Pacific Southern Right Whale Poj1ulation Eubalaena australisJ.. Large group of pygmy right whales seen in a shelf upwel ling region offVict[r] ...
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