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Influence of Manatees' Diving on Their Risk of Collision with Watercraft

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Title
Influence of Manatees' Diving on Their Risk of Collision with Watercraft
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PLOS ONE, April 2016
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0151450
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Holly H. Edwards, Julien Martin, Charles J. Deutsch, Robert G. Muller, Stacie M. Koslovsky, Alexander J. Smith, Margaret E. Barlas

Abstract

Watercraft pose a threat to endangered Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Mortality from watercraft collisions has adversely impacted the manatee population's growth rate, therefore reducing this threat is an important management goal. To assess factors that contribute to the risk of watercraft strikes to manatees, we studied the diving behavior of nine manatees carrying GPS tags and time-depth recorders in Tampa Bay, Florida, during winters 2002-2006. We applied a Bayesian formulation of generalized linear mixed models to depth data to model the probability (Pt) that manatees would be no deeper than 1.25 m from the water's surface as a function of behavioral and habitat covariates. Manatees above this threshold were considered to be within striking depth of a watercraft. Seventy-eight percent of depth records (individual range 62-86%) were within striking depth (mean = 1.09 m, max = 16.20 m), illustrating how vulnerable manatees are to strikes. In some circumstances manatees made consecutive dives to the bottom while traveling, even in areas >14 m, possibly to conserve energy. This is the first documentation of potential cost-efficient diving behavior in manatees. Manatees were at higher risk of being within striking depth in shallow water (<0.91 m), over seagrass, at night, and while stationary or moving slowly; they were less likely to be within striking depth when ≤50 m from a charted waterway. In shallow water the probability of a manatee being within striking depth was 0.96 (CI = 0.93-0.98) and decreased as water depth increased. The probability was greater over seagrass (Pt = 0.96, CI = 0.93-0.98) than over other substrates (Pt = 0.73, CI = 0.58-0.84). Quantitative approaches to assessing risk can improve the effectiveness of manatee conservation measures by helping identify areas for protection.

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Country Count As %
Mexico 1 2%
Peru 1 2%
Unknown 63 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 14 22%
Researcher 13 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 14%
Student > Master 8 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 13 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 40%
Environmental Science 11 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 6%
Sports and Recreations 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 16 25%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 April 2022.
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#5,540,059
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#97,457
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