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x Brownell, Robert L., Jr.; Anderson, Paul K.; Owen, Robert P.; Ralls, Katherine S.
  1981
The status of dugongs at Palau, an isolated island group. In: H. Marsh (ed.), The dugong. Proceedings of a seminar/workshop held at James Cook University of North Queensland 8-13 May 1979 (q.v.).
[Townsville (Australia)], James Cook Univ. (vii + 400): 19-42. 1 tab. 2 figs.
–Reviews historical data on dugongs at Palau, reports the results of two aerial surveys, discusses the natural history, habitat use, and poaching of Palauan dugongs, and recommends research and conservation measures. The population is estimated at no more than 50, with 13-24% calves and an abundant seagrass supply, but the high rate of poaching seems likely to exterminate the population.

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; mode of entanglement in nets; boat collisions; 643.)
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; boat; m106.)
x  1981Brownell & Ralls (TM; Florida; carcasses salvaged, 1974-77; 147-154.)
x  1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (TM; Florida; review & research needs; 6-10.)
Aerial Surveys of Distribution
x  1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (DD; Palau; 25-33.)
Australia
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; behavior; 91-111.)
Behavior (General and Miscellaneous)
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Captivity, Sirenians in; Locomotion; Migration and Movements; Sound Production; Respiration and Diving; and under species)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; behavior & conservation; 640-647.)
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; gen. acc., 91-111; resting, 98.)
x  1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (DD; Palau; idling & daily activity patterns; 31-34.)
x  1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (TM; Florida; research needs; 6.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; social interactions; 644-645)
Behavior, Epimeletic
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; cow-calf behavior; 644.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; persistent grazing of preferred sites, 640-641; uprooting seagrasses, 641.)
Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception
(SEE ALSO: Sense Organs; Sound Production)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; investigation & range of detection of boats & divers; 642-645.)
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; investigating observers; 105-106.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; movements in response to weather & disturbance, & for parturition, 641; avoiding boats & divers, 643-644.)
Captivity, Sirenians in
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (TML; review & research needs; 10-13.)
Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; conservation & behavior; 640-647.)
x  1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (DD; Palau; 24, 35-39.)
x  1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (TML; Florida; recommendations; 15-16.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x *1981aAnderson, P.K. (behavior & conservation; 640-647.)
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (Australia; behavior; 91-111.)
x  1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (Palau; status; 19-42.)
Florida
x *1981Brownell & Ralls (TML; workshop proceedings; 1-154.)
x *1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (TML; review; 3-16.)
Food
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive; Captivity, Sirenians in; Digestive System; Food Plants; Weed Control) (NOTE: Plants reported as part of the captive but not the natural diet of sirs. will not necessarily be found under Food Plants. Papers referring to them are, however, indexed here.)
x  1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (TML; Florida; feeding ecology; review & research needs; 5.)
Food Plants: Amphibolis antarctica
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; feeding behavior; 641.)
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; feeding behavior; 97.)
Food Plants: Halophila ovalis
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD feeding behavior; 641.)
Food Plants: Zostera capricornis
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. ("Z. capricorni"; DD; Australia; feeding behavior; 641.)
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; feeding behavior; 96.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (DD; Palau; harpoons, explosives; 24, 34-35.)
Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; swimming speed, 94-95; calves swimming above mothers' backs, 101-103.)
Migration and Movements
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Aggregative; Behavior, Shelter-seeking; Locomotion; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; patterns of habitat use; 640-642.)
x  1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (DD; Palau; local movements; 32-33.)
Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1981Brownell & Ralls (TML; Florida; carcasses salvaged, 1974-77; 147-154.)
Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; Australia; sharks; 103, 107.)
x  1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (DD; Palau; carcasses scavenged by crocodiles; 34-35.)
Palau
x *1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (DD; status; 19-42.)
Parasitology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Community Ecology; Parasites)
x  1981Brownell, Anderson et al. (DD; Palau; remoras; 32-33.)
Pathology
(SEE ALSO: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Natural Death or Injury; Parasites; Parasitology; Pollution, Effects of; Temperature, Effects of; Teratology; Virology)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; capture myopathy; 645-646.)
Phylogeny and Affinities of the Sirenia and/or Desmostylia
(SEE ALSO under species)
   1981Lowenstein et al. (albumin systematics)
Population Biology
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution; Age Determination; Birth and Breeding)
x  1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (TML; Florida; review & research needs; 3-5.)
Respiration and Diving
(SEE ALSO: Locomotion)
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (DD; diving times & behavior; 642-643.)
Sound Production
x  1981bAnderson, P.K. (DD; in capt.; correlation of sounds with movements of facial skin; 94.)
South Carolina
x  1981Brownell & Ralls (TML; carcass salvaged; 153.)
Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
x  1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (TML; Florida; review; 8-9.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x  1981aAnderson, P.K. (behavior, comp. w/ DD; 642-644.)
x *1981Brownell & Ralls (Florida; workshop proceedings; 1-154.)
x *1981Brownell, Ralls & Reeves (Florida; review; 3-16.)