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Underestimating the damage: Interpreting cetacean carcass recoveries in the context of the deepwater horizon-BP Incident

Williams, Rob and Gero, Shane and Calambokidis, John and Kraus, Scott D. and Lusseau, David and Read, Andrew J. and Robbins, Jooke (2009) Underestimating the damage: Interpreting cetacean carcass recoveries in the context of the deepwater horizon-BP Incident. Conservation Letters.

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Abstract

Evaluating impacts of human activities on marine ecosystems is difficult when effects occur out of plain sight. Oil spill severity is often measured by the number of marine birds and mammals killed, but only a small fraction of carcasses are recovered. The Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest in the U.S. history, but some reports implied modest environmental impacts, in part because of a relatively low number (101) of observed marine mammal mortalities. We estimate historical carcass-detection rates for 14 cetacean species in the northern Gulf of Mexico that have estimates of abundance, survival rates, and stranding records.

Item Type: Documents
Class Number: 500.UND009
Keywords: USA, Oil Spills, Gulf of Mexico, Fish Mortality, Data
Subjects: Disasters and Climate Change
Depositing User: Users 4 not found.
Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2022 06:31
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2022 06:31
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/16730

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