Bibliography Record

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 Domning, Daryl Paul (detail)
   
1990a
Sirenian rhizivory studies. In: L. W. Lefebvre & J. A. Powell, Jr., Manatee grazing impacts on seagrasses in Hobe Sound and Jupiter Sound in southeast Florida during the winter of 1988-89.
NTIS Document No. PB 90-271883 (vi + 36): 34-36.
–Describes observations and experiments conducted to determine how thoroughly manatees can excavate and remove seagrass rhizomes, and how effective tusks of extinct dugongids might have been for this purpose. Results of experiments on the latter topic were published by Domning & Beatty (2007).

Related Index Records (8)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 1990a Domning, D.P. (rhizivory experiments; 34-36.)
Dioplotherium Cope, 1883
  x 1990a Domning, D.P. (rhizivory experiments with model tusks; 35-36.)
Florida
  x 1990a Domning, D.P. (Hobe & Jupiter Sounds; rhizivory experiments; 34-36.)
Food Plants: Halodule
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1990a Domning, D.P. (Florida; 34.)
Food Plants: Syringodium filiforme
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x 1990a Domning, D.P. (Florida; 34.)
Metaxytherium de Christol, 1840
  x 1990a Domning, D.P. (rhizivory experiments with model tusks; 35-36.)
Paleoecology and Taphonomy
  x 1990a Domning, D.P. (rhizivory experiments; 34-36.)
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Hatt, 1934
  x v 1990a Domning, D.P. (Florida; feeding on seagrass rhizomes; 34-36.)

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