Estimating upper bounds for occupancy and number of manatees in areas potentially affected by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform created the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. As part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment process, we applied an innovative modeling approach to obtain upper estimates for occupancy and for number of manatees in areas potentially...

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Main Authors: Julien Martin, Holly H Edwards, Florent Bled, Christopher J Fonnesbeck, Jérôme A Dupuis, Beth Gardner, Stacie M Koslovsky, Allen M Aven, Leslie I Ward-Geiger, Ruth H Carmichael, Daniel E Fagan, Monica A Ross, Thomas R Reinert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3966779?pdf=render