Select Publications from the Manatee Research Program


The following publications from the Manatee Research Program staff relate to conservation and innovative research related to marine mammals.

 


Reynolds, J.E., III, and K.D. Haddad (eds.). 1990. Report of the Workshop on
 Geographic Information Systems as an Aid to Managing Habitat for West Indian
 Manatees in Florida and Georgia. Florida Marine Research Publication Number 49:
98pp.

Reynolds, J.E. III, and D.K. Odell. 1991. Manatees and Dugongs. Facts on File,
Inc., New York. ISBN 0-8160-2436-7: 192 pp. Second printing: October 1993.
Fourth printing: March 1998.

Reynolds, J.E., III and D.K. Odell (eds.). 1991. Marine Mammal Strandings in the
United States. Proceedings of the Second Marine Mammal Stranding Workshop,
Miami, Florida, 3-5 December 1987. NOAA Technical Report NMFS98: 157pp.

Garrott, R.A., B.B. Ackerman, J.R. Cary, D.M. Heisey, J. E. Reynolds, III, P.M. Rose, and J.R. Wilcox, 1994. Trends in counts of Florida manatees at winter aggregation sites. Journal of Wildlife Management 58(4) 642-654.

Gorzelany, J.F. 2004. Evaluation of boater compliance with manatee speed zones along
the Gulf Coast of Florida. Coastal Management, 32(3): 215-226. (WM Section)

Reynolds, J.E., III and J.R. Wilcox. 1994. Observations of Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) around selected power plants in winter. Marine Mammal Science 10(2): 163-177.

Garrott, R.A., B.B. Ackerman, D.M. Heisey, J.R. Cary, J.E. Reynolds, III, and J.R. Wilcox. 1995. Assessment of trends in sizes of manatee populations at several Florida aggregation sites. Pp. 34-55. IN: T.J.

O=Shea et al. (Eds.), Population Biology of the Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). U. S. Dept. of the Interior, National Biological Service Information and Technology Report 1:289pp.


Reynolds, J.E.,III, W.A. Szelistowski, and M.A. Leon. 1995. Status and conservation of manatees (Trichechus manatus) in Costa Rica. Biological Conservation 71: 193-196.

Craig, B.A., M.A. Newton, R.A. Garrott, J.E. Reynolds, III, and J.R. Wilcox. 1997. 
Analysis of aerial survey data on Trichechus manatus using Markov chain Monte
Carlo. Biometrics 53:524-541.

Reynolds, J.E., III. 1999. Efforts to Conserve the Manatees. Pp. 267-295. IN: J.R. Twiss, Jr. and R. R. Reeves (eds.). Conservation and Management of Marine
Mammals. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.: 471pp.

Reynolds, J.E. III, and S.A. Rommel (eds.) 1999. Biology of Marine Mammals. 
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. ISBN 1560983752: 578pp.

Morales-Vela, B., D. Olivera-Gomez, J.E. Reynolds, III, and G.B. Rathbun. 2000. Distribution and habitat use by manatees Trichechus manatus manatus in Belize and Chetumal Bay, Mexico. Biological Conservation 95:67-75.

Reynolds, J.E., III, R.S. Wells, and S.D. Eide 2000. The Bottlenose Dolphin-Biology 
and Conservation. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. ISBN 0-8130-1775-0:
288pp.

Morales-Vela, B., D. Olivera-Gomez, J.E. Reynolds, III, and G.B. Rathbun. 2000. Distribution and habitat use by manatees Trichechus manatus manatus in Belize and Chetumal Bay, Mexico. Biological Conservation 95:67-75.

Koelsch, J.K. 2001. Reproduction in female manatees observed in 
Sarasota Bay, Florida. Marine Mammal Science 17(2): 331-342.

Wright, I.E., Reynolds, J.E. III, B.B. Ackerman, L.I. Ward, B.L. Weigle, and W.A.
Szelistowski. 2002. Trends in manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) counts and
habitat use in Tampa Bay, 1987-1994: Implications for conservation. Marine
 Mammal Science 18(1):259-274.

Reynolds, J.E., III, D.P. DeMaster, and G.T. Silber 2002. Endangered and threatened species. Pp. 373-382. IN: W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig, and H. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

Bradley, W.G., and J.E. Reynolds, III. 2002. Isolation, cloning, sequencing and expression of marine mammal interleukin-2. Pp. 300-312. IN: C.J. Pfeiffer (editor). Cell and Molecular Biology of Marine Mammals, Krieger Publishing Company, Melbourne, FL.

Reynolds, J.E., III and J.A. Powell, Jr. 2002. The manatees--Family Trichechidae (Trichechus manatus, T. senegalensis, and T. inunguis). Pp. 709-720. IN: W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig, and H. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

Glaser, K.S. (photographs) and J.E. Reynolds, III (text). 2003. Mysterious Manatees. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. ISBN 0-8130-2637-7: 187pp.

Marsh, H., P. Arnold, M. Freeman, D. Haynes, A. Read, J. Reynolds, and T. Kasuya.
2003. Strategies for conserving marine mammals. Pp. 1-19. IN: N. Gales, M.
Hindell and R. Kirkwood (eds.), Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism, and
Management Issues. CSIRO Publishing, Australia: 446pp.

Reynolds, J.E., III and R.S. Wells. 2003. Dolphins, Whales and Manatees of Florida: A Guide to Sharing Their World. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. ISBN 0-8130-2687-3: 148pp.

S.A. Rommel, J.E. Reynolds, III and H.A. Lynch. 2003. Adaptations of the herbivorous marine mammals. Pp. 287-308. IN: Mannetje, L. >t,

L. Ramirez-Aviles, C. Sandoval-Castro, and J.C. Ku-Vera (eds.). Matching Herbivore Nutrition to Ecosystems Biodiversity. VI International Symposium on the Nutrition of Herbivores. Proceedings of an International Symposium held in Merida, Mexico, 19-24 October 2003, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan: 341pp.


Langtimm, C., C. Beck, H. Edwards, K. Fick-Child, B. Ackerman, S. Barton, and W. Hartley. 2004. Survival estimates for Florida manatees from the photo-identification of individuals. Marine Mammal Science 20(3): 438-463.

Reynolds, J.E., III, S.A. Rommel, and M.E. Pitchford. 2004. The likelihood of sperm
competition in manatees--explaining an apparent paradox. Marine Mammal Science
20(3):464-476.

Wetzel, D.L., and J.E. Reynolds, III. 2004. Definitive identification of fatty acid constituents in marine mammal tissues. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61(4):554-560.

Craig, B.A., and J.E. Reynolds, III. 2004. Determination of manatee population
trends along the Atlantic coast of Florida using a Bayesian approach with
temperature-adjusted aerial survey data. Marine Mammal Science 20(3):386-400.

Laist, D.L., and J.E. Reynolds, III. 2005. Influence of Power Plants and Other
Warm-Water Refuges on Florida Manatees. Marine Mammal Science 21(4):739-764.


Laist, D.L., and J.E. Reynolds, III. 2005. Florida Manatees, Warm-Water Refuges,
and an Uncertain Future. Coastal Management 33:279-295.


Reynolds, J.E., III. 2005. The paradox of marine mammal science and
conservation: Maddening inertia during accelerated change. Pp. 1-3. IN: Reynolds, J.E., III, W.F. Perrin, R.R. Reeves, T.J. Ragen, and S. Montgomery (eds.). Marine Mammal Research: Beyond Crisis Management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.

Reynolds, J.E., III, W.F. Perrin, R.R. Reeves, T.J. Ragen, and S. Montgomery (eds.). 2005. Marine Mammal Research: Beyond Crisis Management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.ISBN 0-8018-8255-9:223pp.


Reynolds, J.E., III, D.L. Wetzel, and T. M. O'Hara. 2006. Omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids in blubber of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus): health implications for subsistence-level cultures. Arctic 59(2):155-164.

Lefebrve, L.W., J.E. Reynolds, III, T.J. Ragen, C.A. Langtimm, and J.A. Valade (eds.). In press-2006. Manatee Population Ecology and Management Workshop Proceedings, April 2002. U.S. Geological Survey Special Publication.

Quintana-Rizzo, E., and J.E. Reynolds, III. In review-2006. Regional Management Plan for the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus). United Nations Environment Programme, Kingston, Jamaica.

Gannon, J.G., K.M. Scolardi, J.E. Reynolds, III, J.K. Koelsch, and T.J. Kessenich, 2007, in press. Habitat selection by manatees in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Marine Mammal Science.

Edwards, H.H., K.H. Pollock, B.B. Ackerman, J.E. Reynolds, III, and J.A. Powell. In
review. Components of detection probability in manatee aerial surveys during
winter. Journal of Wildlife Management. 


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