Bibliography Record

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Deutsch, Charles J.; Bonde, Robert K.; Reid, James P. (detail)
   
1998
Radio-tracking manatees from land and space: tag design, implementation, and lessons learned from long-term study.
Marine Technology Society Jour. 32(1): 18-29. 5 figs.
–Traces the development of the manatee radio-tag assembly, and describes how the technology has been implemented in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, including capture and tagging methods, strengths and weaknesses of the current tag design, relative merits of VHF and satellite-monitored PTT transmitters, contributions of radio-tagging to studies of manatee biology, and promising new developments in tag technology and analytical methods.

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Florida
  x 1998 Deutsch et al. (TML; radio-tracking; 18-29.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1998 Deutsch et al. (TML, TMM; capture & handling for radio-tracking; 20-21.)

Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
  x 1998 Deutsch et al. (TM; radio-tracking; 20, 24-26.)

Puerto Rico
  x 1998 Deutsch et al. (TMM; radio-tracking; 20-22, 24-26.)

Tagging Methods and Recognition
  x * 1998 Deutsch et al. (TM; Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico; radio-tracking; 18-29.)

Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 1998 Deutsch et al. (Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico; radio-tracking; 18-29.)


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