Vol. 18 No. 1 (2023): 20th Anniversary Special Issue

Cover of Vol. 18 No. 1 depicting aquatic mammals of Latin America with a map of the region superimposed. Art by Alexandre Huber

This is 18(1) 2023 Special 20th Anniversary issue of LAJAM

Guest Editors: Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, Nataly Castelblanco Martinez, Carolina Loch, Aldo Pacheco, & Miriam Marmontel

Editor-in-Chief: Miriam Marmontel

Managing Editor: Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske

Layout Editor: Aileen Arango & Karine Diniz Herte

Artwork for Cover & Reviews: Alexandre Huber

Published: 2023-01-27

Editorial

Editorial: Twenty years of the Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals

Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, Nataly Castelblanco-Martinez, Carolina Loch, Aldo S. Pacheco, Miriam Marmontel

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- Editorial LAJAM 18.1

Reviews

Two decades of the Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals (LAJAM): A bibliometric review for the period 2002 – 2022

Israel Huesca-Domínguez, Eduardo Morteo, Isabel Hernández-Candelario, Christian Delfín-Alfonso, Luis Abarca-Arenas, Miriam Marmontel, Daniel Palacios

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- Huesca-Domínguez LAJAM 18.1 2023
Review of threats and implementation of the Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of Marine Mammals in the Wider Caribbean Region

Monica Borobia, Courtney Vail, Claire Pusineri, Géraldine Conruyt

21-38
- Borobia etal LAJAM 18.1 2023
Trends and gaps in marine mammal research from Mexico during 1998 – 2021

Mari Jose Escobar-Lazcano, Eduardo Morteo, Christian A. Delfín-Alfonso, Isabel Hernández-Candelario, Luis Abarca-Arenas

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- Escobar-Lazcano etal LAJAM 18.1 2023
- Supplementary Material 1 & 2
Aquatic mammal fossils in Latin America – a review of records, advances and challenges in research in the last 30 years

Mariana Viglino, Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro, Aldo Benites-Palomino, Atzcalli Ehécatl Hernández-Cisneros, Carolina S. Gutstein, Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Mario A. Cozzuol, Monica R. Buono, Carolina Loch

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Latin American aquatic mammals: an overview of 12 years focusing on molecular techniques applied to conservation

Rocio Loizaga, Susana Caballero, Haydée A Cunha, Waleska Gravena, Olga Herrerra-Trujillo, Fernando Lopes, Lucas Milmann, Paulo Henrique Ott, María José Pérez-Alvarez, Juan Ignacio Túnez, Cristian A. Durante, Larissa Rosa de Oliveira

66-95
- Loizaga etal LAJAM 18.1 2023
Contributions of bioacoustics to the scientific knowledge of marine mammals in Latin America

Mariana Chávez-Andrade, Horacio de la Cueva, Jaime Luévano-Esparza, Pablo A. Lavín-Murcio

96-113
Seeing in the dark: A review of the use of side-scan sonar to detect and study manatees, with an emphasis on Latin America

Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, León David Olivera-Gómez

114-124
- Gonzalez-Socoloske & Olivera-Gómez LAJAM 18.1 2023
- Supplementary Material 1
Advances in the knowledge of the biology and conservation of the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis)

Rodrigo Amaral, Miriam Marmontel, Diogo de Souza, Camila de Carvalho, Gisele Valdevino, Michelle Guterres-Pazin, Daniela de Mello, Danielle Lima, Hilda Chávez-Pérez, Vera da Silva

125-138
- Amaral etal LAJAM 18.1 2023
The Amazon River dolphin, Inia geoffrensis: What have we learned in the last two decades of research?

Vera M. F. da Silva, Sannie M. Brum, Daniela M.D. de Mello, Rodrigo de Souza Amaral, Waleska Gravena, Elizabeth Campbell, Rayane da S. Gonçalves, Vanessa Mintzer

139-157
- da Silva etal LAJAM 18.1 2023
Accomplishments and challenges of the research on Antillean manatee: A bibliometric analysis

Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez, Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, Leslie Cabrias, Natalia Garcés-Cuartas, Gloria Katerin Arévalo-González, João Carlos Gomes Borges, Miriam Marmontel

158-166
- Castelblanco-Martínez etal LAJAM 18.1 2023
- Supplementary Material 1

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