Estimating the abundance of marine mammal populations

PS Hammond, TB Francis, D Heinemann… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Motivated by the need to estimate the abundance of marine mammal populations to inform
conservation assessments, especially relating to fishery bycatch, this paper provides …

The Amazon River dolphin, Inia geoffrensis: What have we learned in the last two decades of research?

VMF da Silva, SM Brum, DMD de Mello… - … American Journal of …, 2023 - lajamjournal.org
In the last decades, knowledge about the biology of the Amazon river dolphin Inia
geoffrensis has increased considerably. Accordingly, we present a review of the published …

Identifying the current and future status of freshwater connectivity corridors in the Amazon Basin

B Caldas, ML Thieme, N Shahbol… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Amazon Basin features a vast network of healthy, free‐flowing rivers, which
provides habitat for the most biodiverse freshwater fauna of any basin globally. However …

Conservation of Amazonian aquatic mammals

S Brum, P Rosas‐Ribeiro, RS Amaral… - Aquatic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic mammals worldwide are highly threatened in freshwater ecosystems where they are
affected by direct human activities (eg hunting) as well as indirect human alteration of …

Ecological responses to flow variation inform river dolphin conservation

S Paudel, JL Koprowski, U Thakuri, R Sigdel… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Many environmental flow (e-flow) studies and applications have predominantly used state—
(ie, at a single time point) and rate—(ie, temporal change) based demographic …

Density and abundance estimation of Amazonian river dolphins: understanding population size variability

M Paschoalini, F Trujillo, M Marmontel… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The dolphins Inia geoffrensis—boto and Sotalia fluviatilis—tucuxi are threatened cetaceans
inhabiting river ecosystems in South America; population numbers are still lacking for many …

Satellite-monitored movements of the Amazon River dolphin and considerations for their conservation

E Campbell, J Alfaro-Shigueto, JC Mangel, JL Mena… - Oryx, 2023 - cambridge.org
The Amazon River dolphin Inia geoffrensis occurs throughout the basins of the Amazon and
Orinoco Rivers and is categorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Using satellite …

Monitoring a critical population of the Bolivian river dolphin, Inia boliviensis, before and after closing the floodgates of a hydroelectric dam in the Amazon Basin, Brazil …

D Pivari, B Pagliani, L Lemos, D Lima… - Journal for Nature …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dam constructions threaten aquatic fauna, degrading their habitats and causing population
fragmentation. Environmental impact studies were carried out from March 2010 to July 2015 …

[HTML][HTML] Are There Barriers Separating the Pink River Dolphin Populations (Inia boliviensis, Iniidae, Cetacea) within the Mamoré–Iténez River Basins (Bolivia)? An …

M Ruiz-García, P Escobar-Armel, M Martínez-Agüero… - Genes, 2024 - mdpi.com
The pink river dolphin, or bufeo, is one of the dolphins which lives in the rivers of the Orinoco
and Amazon basins in South America. The Bolivian bufeo population is considered a …

The biosonar of the boto: evidence of differences among species of river dolphins (Inia spp.) from the Amazon

JF Melo, TOS Amorim, M Paschoalini, A Andriolo - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Echolocation clicks can reflect the anatomy of the vocalizing animal, enabling the distinction
of species. River dolphins from the family Iniidae are formally represented by one species …