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Factors influencing the regeneration of the mangrove Bruguiera gymnorrhiza (L.) Lamk. on a tropical Pacific island

Mangrove swamps occupy approximately two-thirds of the shoreline on Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and also border the island's most populated areas. Kosraeans depend on mangrove swamps for a supply of wood to support a growing handicraft industry, for a dependable source of fuelwood, and for habitat to support the harvest of fish and mangrove crabs. One of the more prominent mangro
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K. W. Krauss, J. A. Allen

Lost and found: Louisiana’s coastal prairies

It’s hard to fathom, but in just 250 years, some 2.5 million acres of coastal prairie that once blanketed in southwest Louisiana have dwindled to just 200 in scattered parcels.The journals of early settlers give us a peek at what it was like: “plentiful game,” “seemingly infinite range for livestock forage,” “long growing season.” As the human population grew, with its concomitant increase in trad
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John Pitre, Larry K. Allain

Lower survival probabilities for adult Florida manatees in years with intense coastal storms

The endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) inhabits the subtropical waters of the southeastern United States, where hurricanes are a regular occurrence. Using mark-resighting statistical models, we analyzed 19 years of photo-identification data and detected significant annual variation in adult survival for a subpopulation in northwest Florida where human impact is low. That v
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C.A. Langtimm, C.A. Beck

Seasonal movements, migratory behavior, and site fidelity of West Indian manatees along the Atlantic Coast of the United States

Abstract not supplied at this time
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C. J. Deutsch, J. P. Reid, R. K. Bonde, Dean E. Easton, H. I. Kochman, T. J. O'Shea

Modeling manifest variables in longitudinal designs - A two-stage approach

No abstract available
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Bret E. Fuller, Alexander von Eye, P. K. Wood, Bobby D. Keeland

Modeling manatee response to restoration in the Everglades and Ten Thousand Islands

No abstract available.
Authors
Bradley Stith, James P. Reid, Dean E. Easton, Susan M. Butler

Archive of digital boomer seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruises 94GFP01, 95GFP01, 96GFP01, 97GFP01, and 98GFP02 in Lakes Pontchartrain, Borgne, and Maurepas, Louisiana, 1994-1998

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the University of New Orleans, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the University of Georgia, conducted five geophysical surveys of Lakes Pontchartrain, Borgne, and Maurepas i
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Karynna Calderon, Shawn V. Dadisman, Jack L. Kindinger, S. Jeffress Williams, James G. Flocks, Shea Penland, Dana S. Wiese

Factors limiting the intertidal distribution of the mangrove species Xylocarpus granatum

The tree species Xylocarpus granatum is commonly described as occurring in the upper intertidal zone of mangrove forests, but mature trees are occasionally found at lower elevations. In the Utwe River basin, on the Pacific island of Kosrae, we investigated the relative importance of several biotic and abiotic factors that may control the intertidal distribution of X. granatum. Factors we evaluated
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J. A. Allen, K. W. Krauss, R.D. Hauff