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Florida Manatee Mortality 1974-2010 Citation Availability: This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Description The primary use of this dataset is to display reported manatee carcass recovery locations and associated attributes, such as cause of death. more This dataset contains data from the geographic information system (GIS) shapefile of recovered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) carcass locations within Florida from April 1974 through to the latest spatially verified data presently available. Locations are based both on coordinates provided by field staff (gathered either by geographic positioning system [GPS] or by using navigation charts to ascertain latitudes and longitudes) and maps provided by the field staff. Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) GIS staff in the Marine Mammal subsection verify that the provided coordinates match the intent of the plotted location. Points representing carcass locations were entered into a GIS using a digital shoreline basemap taken largely from NOAA navigation charts (1:40,000) and from USGS quadrangles (1:24,000). The scale is considered to be 1:40,000. Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). Counts were not available and filled with "1"; time was not available and filled with "00:00:00." These were noted in the [Notes] field. 7/21/2011: This dataset, originally containing data from 1974-2008, was updated to include 2009-2010 data. 11/11/2011: This dataset, originally containing data from 1974-early 2010, was updated to include data through December 2010 data. Scope Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, A, North Atlantic, ASW, Mexico Gulf, Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Temporal coverage 3 April 1974 - 31 December 2010 Taxonomic coverage Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) [WoRMS] Contributor Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), more, data owner Related datasets Published in: OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more URL Dataset information: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-14 Information last updated: 2012-11-14 |