• DOI:10.1080/09397140.2017.1315853
Corpus ID: 90144436

Reconstructing historical baselines for the Persian/Arabian Gulf Dugong, Dugong dugon (Mammalia: Sirena)

@article{AlAbdulrazzak2017ReconstructingHB,
  title={Reconstructing historical baselines for the Persian/Arabian Gulf Dugong, Dugong dugon (Mammalia: Sirena)},
  author={Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak and D. Pauly},
  journal={Zoology in the Middle East},
  year={2017},
  volume={63},
  pages={102 - 95}
}

Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak, D. Pauly

Published 2017

Geography

Zoology in the Middle East

Retrospective estimates of historic abundances and distributions of marine organisms are crucial to understanding the anthropogenic impacts on the structure and species of coastal ecosystems, especially in the case of vulnerable species such as the Dugong (Dugong dugon. [...] Key Method We create a ‘dugong discovery curve’ and compile global density estimates as proxies for the overall health of the population in the Gulf. We find that since 1950 dugong range may have contracted by one quarter, and despite…Expand Abstract

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