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Quantifying injury to common bottlenose dolphins from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using an age-, sex- and class-structured population model

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العنوان: Quantifying injury to common bottlenose dolphins from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using an age-, sex- and class-structured population model
المؤلفون: Schwacke, LH, Thomas, L, Wells, RS, McFee, WE, Hohn, AA, Mullin, KD, Zolman, ES, Quigley, BM, Rowles, TK, Schwacke, JH
المصدر: Endangered Species Research, Vol 33, Pp 265-279 (2017)
بيانات النشر: Inter-Research, 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: LCC:Zoology
LCC:Botany
مصطلحات موضوعية: Zoology, QL1-991, Botany, QK1-989
الوصف: Field studies documented increased mortality, adverse health effects, and reproductive failure in common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. In order to determine the appropriate type and amount of restoration needed to compensate for losses, the overall extent of injuries to dolphins had to be quantified. Simply counting dead individuals does not consider long-term impacts to populations, such as the loss of future reproductive potential from mortality of females, or the chronic health effects that continue to compromise survival long after acute effects subside. Therefore, we constructed a sex- and age-structured model of population growth and included additional class structure to represent dolphins exposed and unexposed to DWH oil. The model was applied for multiple stocks to predict injured population trajectories using estimates of post-spill survival and reproductive rates. Injured trajectories were compared to baseline trajectories that were expected had the DWH incident not occurred. Two principal measures of injury were computed: (1) lost cetacean years (LCY); the difference between baseline and injured population size, summed over the modeled time period, and (2) time to recovery; the number of years for the stock to recover to within 95% of baseline. For the dolphin stock in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, the estimated LCY was substantial: 30347 LCY (95% CI: 11511 to 89746). Estimated time to recovery was 39 yr (95% CI: 24 to 80). Similar recovery timelines were predicted for stocks in the Mississippi River Delta, Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay and the Northern Coastal Stock.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1863-5407
1613-4796
Relation: https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v33/p265-279/; https://doaj.org/toc/1863-5407; https://doaj.org/toc/1613-4796
DOI: 10.3354/esr00777
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/b200b931cb6a4997990b9b071923d6b5
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.b200b931cb6a4997990b9b071923d6b5
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:18635407
16134796
DOI:10.3354/esr00777