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x Preen, Anthony R.; Marsh, Helene D.; Heinsohn, George Edwin
  1989
Recommendations for the conservation and management of dugong in the Arabian region.
MEPA Coastal & Marine Management Series (Meteorological & Environmental Protection Administration, Saudi Arabia), Rept. No. 10, Vol. 2: iv + 43. 3 figs. 4 maps. Jan. 1989.
–Vol. 1: Preen (1989a). Excerpts reprinted in B. Heneman, 1991, The Gulf War oil spills: The ICBP survey of the Saudi Arabian Gulf coast, March, 1991. A report to the International Council for Bird Preservation and the National Commission on Wildlife Conservation and Development, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Bolinas (Calif.), publ. by the author (v + 21 + 111 pp.): Annex 12, pp. 1-8. Gives a summary and timetable for conservation actions proposed (1-3), discusses the international significance of dugongs in the region and the threats they face (5-6), presents the recommendations in detail (7-15), describes each of 12 areas recommended for protection (17-23), maps areas specially at risk from oil spills (25-27), provides instructions and data sheets for identifying stranded marine mammals (31-39; in Engl. & Arabic), and offers advice on the design and conduct of aerial surveys in the Arabian Gulf and Red Sea (41-42).

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; oil spill, 6, 51, 53, 69, 83, 90, 119; ?red tide, 43, 55; gill nets, 47-53, 96-100, 127-130, 134; trawlers, 100, 128-129.)
Aerial Surveys of Distribution
x  1989aMarsh & Sinclair (DD; Australia; visibility bias correction; 1017-1024.)
   1989bMarsh & Sinclair
x  1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; techniques; 41-42.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; 18-24, 27-32, 36-47, 57-66, 75-81, 94-96, 100-112, 115-119, 156-162, 176-200.)
Age Determination
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Embryology & Ontogeny; Growth Rates; Population Biology)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; growth layers in tusks; 54, 86.)
Asia
(SEE ALSO: Arctic Region; Bering Sea; China; East Indies; Indian Ocean; India; Japan; Red Sea; Russia; Sakhalin; Sri Lanka; Taiwan)
x *1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; conservation; 1-43.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; status & conservation; 1-200.)
Australia
   1989Marsh & Saalfeld (DD)
x  1989aMarsh & Sinclair (DD; aerial surveys; visibility bias correction; 1018-1022.)
x  1989aMarsh, H. (DD; Northern Territory; stranding by cyclone; 78-84.)
x  1989bPreen, A. (DD; Moreton Bay, Queensland; mating behavior; 382-387.)
Behavior, Aggregative
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; group sizes; 42-46, 50-51, 58-60, 63, 75-78, 81, 84-86, 94-97, 101-102, 110-112, 181-183, 193-194, 200.)
x  1989bPreen, A. (DD; Queensland; herd sizes; 383.)
Behavior, Agonistic and Territorial
x *1989bPreen, A. (DD; Queensland; males fighting in mating herds; 384-386.)
Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; rhizivory ?limited to soft sediments; 120-121.)
Behavior, Sexual
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding)
x *1989bPreen, A. (DD; Queensland; mating; 382-387.)
Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape
(SEE ALSO: Hunting and Capture; Migration and Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1989aMarsh, H. (DD; Australia; spinning & rolling when stranded; 79.)
Birth and Breeding
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Behavior, Sexual; Population Biology; Urogenital System)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; seasonality & calving areas; 53-54, 119.)
Conservation
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Economic Uses; Hunting and Capture; Weed Control)
x *1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; 1-43.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; 1-200.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
   1989Marsh & Saalfeld
x  1989aMarsh & Sinclair (Australia; aerial surveys; visibility bias correction; 1018-1028.)
   1989bMarsh & Sinclair
x  1989aMarsh, H. (Australia; stranded by cyclone; 78-84.)
   1989cMarsh, H. (gen. acc.)
x *1989Preen et al. (Arabian region; conservation; 1-43.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (Arabian region; status & conservation; 1-200.)
x  1989bPreen, A. (Queensland; mating behavior; 382-387.)
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; meat, 47-52, 66, 96-100, 114-115; oil, hide, 51, 97, 99, 114; tusks, 51; marrow, 114.)
Food Plants: Halodule pinifolia
x  1989aMarsh, H. (Australia; 82-83.)
Food Plants: Halodule uninervis
x  1989aMarsh, H. (Australia; 82-83.)
Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; catching by hand & killing with clubs, 47, 50, 114; drowning with cement blocks, 50; capture for tagging, 56, 87-88; metal hooks & harpoons, 96-97, 114; nets, 99, 114.)
Individual Variation
(SEE ALSO: Skeleton)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; skulls; 54-55, 70-71.)
Locomotion
(SEE ALSO: Respiration and Diving)
x  1989aMarsh, H. (DD; Australia; rolling across mudflats; 79.)
Medicinal Applications
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; oil, bones, meat, blood; 97-98, 114-115.)
Natural Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Captivity, Sirenians in; Natural Enemies; Pathology; Temperature, Effects of)
x  1989aMarsh, H. (DD; Australia; stranding by cyclone; 78-84.)
Pollution, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Temperature, Effects of)
x  1989aMarsh, H. (DD; Australia; heavy metals in tissues; 82.)
x *1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; recommendations regarding oil pollution; 1-13, 17-19, 25-27.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; oil, 6, 51, 53, 69, 83, 90, 119, 122-125; other pollutants, 125-126.)
Population Biology
(SEE ALSO: Aerial Surveys of Distribution; Age Determination; Birth and Breeding)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; estimated sustainable mortality; 129-130, 134.)
Red Sea
(SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia)
x *1989Preen et al. (DD; conservation; 1-15, 20, 22.)
x *1989aPreen, A. (DD; status & conservation; 1-13, 17-18, 30-31, 36-40, 57, 59-60, 94-115, 117-118, 121-122, 128-131, 133-134, 136-137, 176, 195-200.)
Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; tusks used in sword handles, 51, 114; meat ?prohibited to Shia Muslims, 52; genitals of captured dugongs kept covered, 97, 99; ritual slaughter & acceptability to Muslims as food, 99, 115.)
Salinity Tolerance
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Ingestive)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; 118, 121, 127.)
Sense Organs
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Investigative, and Sense Perception; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Skeleton; Sound Production)
x  1989aMarsh, H. (dugong tears; 79.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian Gulf; skull measurements; 54, 70-71, 172-174.)
Tagging Methods and Recognition
x  1989Preen et al. (DD; Arabian region; radiotagging; 25-26, 56.)
Temperature, Effects of
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Shelter-seeking or Escape; Migration & Movements; Natural Death or Injury; Pollution, Effects of; Thermoregulation)
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; 119-121.)
Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
x  1989bPreen, A. (sexual behavior, comp. w/ DD; 382, 386.)
Vernacular Names
x  1989aPreen, A. (DD; Arabian region; al jild, taweelah, bugarah al bahr, arus al bahr; 97, 114.)