LAJAM Vol. 19 No. 1 April 2024 Out Now!

Dear readers, we are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals Vol. 19 No. 1. April 2024 as a Special Issue on the Biology and Conservation of Manatees. Guest editors for the special issue were Drs Ana Carolina O. de Meirelles, Rodrigo Amaral, João Carlos G. Borges, and Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez.

This special issue brings you ten articles and three notes devoted to manatees encompassing the general areas of morphology and health (da Silva et al.; Pinheiro et al.), feeding habits and behavior (do Val et al.; Ramos et al.), abundance and distribution (Choi-Lima et al.; Cubero-Pargo et al.; Deeks et al.; Farinelli et al.), and threats and conservation (Allen et al.; Arévalo-González et al.; Corona-Figueroa and Cifuentes-Espinosa; Meirelles et al.; Moreira-Lima et al.).

 

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Miriam Marmontel

Editor-in-Chief

Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske

Managing Editor

 

LAJAM 19.1 Special Issue on the Biology and Conservation of Manatees

Editorial

Meirelles et al. 2024. Manatees across borders: Introduction to the special issue on the biology and conservation of manatees. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 1-6.

Articles

Do Val et al. 2024. Influence of sex and home range on released Antillean manatees’ behavior in Brazil. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 7-14.

Deeks et al. 2024. Proximity to freshwater and seagrass availability mediate the impacts of climate change on the distribution of the West Indian manatee. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 15-31.

Allen et al. 2024. Conservation challenges and emerging threats to the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) in Florida and Puerto Rico. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 32-41.

Farinelli et al. 2024. Quantifying minimum survey effort to reliably detect Amazonian manatees using an unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV) at an ex situ soft-release site. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 42-60.

Corona-Figueroa & Cifuentes-Espinosa 2024. Perceptions on the distribution, threats, strandings, and conservation of the Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) in the Río Dulce National Park, Izabal, Guatemala. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 61-71.

Pinheiro et al. 2024. Morphological analysis of the digestive tract of Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus, Linnaeus, 1758) in northeast Brazil. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 72-81.

Cubero-Pardo et al. 2024. Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) occurrence and grazing spots in three protected areas of Costa Rica. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 82-90.

Arevalo-Gonzalez et al. 2024. Stranding reports of the Antillean manatee in the middle Magdalena Basin, Colombia 2011 to 2023. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 91-99.

Moreira-Lima et al. 2024. Searching for relations between manatee Trichechus manatus manatus calf strandings and environmental degradation in two Northeastern Brazil estuaries. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 100-111.

Choi-Lima et al. 2024. Density and abundance estimation of West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus, between the states of Ceará and Piauí, Northeast Brazil, using active acoustics. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 112-119.

Notes

da Silva et al. 2024. Oral cleft in an Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) (Mammalia, Sirenia). Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 120-124.

Meirelles et al. 2024. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire: Hypotheses for the high incidence of West Indian manatee calf strandings on the Brazilian semi-arid coast. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 125-132.

Ramos et al. 2024. Antillean manatees feed on floating Halophila baillonii in Placencia Lagoon, Belize. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 19(1), 133-140.