Sirenian Conservation :: Issues and Strategies in Developing Countries /

This important scientific volume comprehensively explores the biology and ecological status of manatees and dugongs in all of the geographic regions where they can be found today, from the Caribbean to Eastern Africa, from Arabia to the Amazon, and from Japan through the South Pacific to Australia....

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Weitere Verfasser: Hines, Ellen Marie, 1954- (HerausgeberIn), Reynolds, John Elliott, III, 1952- (HerausgeberIn), Aragones, Lemnuel V. (HerausgeberIn), Mignucci-Giannoni, Antonio A. (HerausgeberIn), Marmontel, Miriam (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
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Zusammenfassung:This important scientific volume comprehensively explores the biology and ecological status of manatees and dugongs in all of the geographic regions where they can be found today, from the Caribbean to Eastern Africa, from Arabia to the Amazon, and from Japan through the South Pacific to Australia. Many of these dwindling populations are situated in developing countries--locales that have previously received little attention in the scientific literature. In these areas, people occupying rivers or coastlines still capture sirenians for food and other uses (oil, bones for carving,
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813042701
0813042704

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