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Research Publication No. 41
The Status of the Dugong in the Southern Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
H Marsh, P Corkeron, I Lawler, A Preen
Department of Tropical Environment Studies and Geography & the Cooperative Research Centre for Ecologically Sustainable Development of the Great Barrier Reef
James Cook University of North Queensland
Queensland 4811
J Lanyon
Zoology Department
The University of Queensland
Queensland 4072
1996
- COVER PAGE & VERSO
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- CONTENTS
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- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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- RECOMMENDATIONS
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- INTRODUCTION
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- METHODS
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- Survey methodology
- Correction factors
- Analysis
- RESULTS
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- Group size and Composition
- Southern Great Barrier Reef Hervey Bay region
- Population and density estimates
- Southern Great Barrier Reef
- Hervey Bay region Differences between surveys
- Southern Great Barrier Reef
- Hervey Bay
- DISCUSSION
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- Significance of differences between surveys
- Possible causes of the decline in dugong numbers..
- Loss of seagrass due to coastal development..
- Indigenous hunting Incidental catch by fishing operations
- Options for management
- Habitat protection
- Indigenous hunting
- Gill-netting
- Priorities for research
- Can we evaluate the relative impact of different threatening processes?
- Habitat status
- Gill-netting
- Indigenous
- Movements of
- Conclusions
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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- REFERENCES
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- APPENDIX
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- TABLES
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- FIGURES
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