Bibliography Record

x
 
 Lefebvre, Lynn W.; Reid, James P.; Kenworthy, W. Judson; Powell, James Arthur, Jr. (detail)
   
2000
Characterizing manatee habitat use and seagrass grazing in Florida and Puerto Rico: implications for conservation and management.
Pacif. Conserv. Biol. 5: 289-298. 1 tab. 2 figs.
–Compares manatee use of seagrasses in the Indian River Lagoon and eastern Puerto Rico, and with reports of seagrass use by dugongs. Manatees grazed more frequently on the locally most abundant species, exhibited possible cultivation grazing, and appeared to prefer Thalassia associated with clumps of Halimeda opuntia, which they pushed aside to get at the Thalassia. Florida manatees are hypothesized to be less specialized seagrass grazers than manatees in tropical regions.

Related Index Records (9)

Aerial Surveys of Distribution
  x 2000 Lefebvre et al. (TML; Indian River Lagoon, Florida; 1988-89; 290-291.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x * 2000 Lefebvre et al. (TM; Florida, Puerto Rico; use of seagrasses, % rhizome removal; 291-297.)
Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
  x 2000 Lefebvre et al. (TML; Florida, Puerto Rico; use of seagrasses; 296-297.)
Florida
  x 2000 Lefebvre et al. (TML; Indian River Lagoon; seagrass use; 289-297.)
Food Plants: Halodule wrightii
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x * 2000 Lefebvre et al. (Florida, Puerto Rico; 289-296.)
Food Plants: Syringodium filiforme
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x * 2000 Lefebvre et al. (Florida, Puerto Rico; 289-296.)
Food Plants: Thalassia testudinum
(Hydrocharitaceae)
  x * 2000 Lefebvre et al. (Florida, Puerto Rico; 289-296.)
Puerto Rico
  x 2000 Lefebvre et al. (TMM; seagrass use; 289-297.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
  x 2000 Lefebvre et al. (Florida & Puerto Rico; seagrass use; 289-298.)

Compendium Software Systems, LLC