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- Title
REMOTE SENSING REVEALS LINKS AMONG THE ENDANGERED HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL, MARINE DEBRIS, AND EL NIÑO.
- Authors
Donohue, MaryJ.; Foley, David G.
- Abstract
The article investigates the relationship between endangered Hawaiian monk seal, marine debris and El Niño through remote sensing in Leeward Island, Hawaii. The study is aimed at identifying the factors affecting the scarcity of Hawaiian monk seal. Their persistence has been classified uncertain due to numerous threats to seals' recovery that includes pollution in the form of entanglement in marine debris. Using the satellite remote sensing data, it indicates that the increase in incidence of monk seal entanglement occur during periods characterized by the El Niño phenomenon and demonstrate that physical oceanographic processes contribute to changes in entanglement rates.
- Subjects
LEEWARD Islands (Hawaii); HAWAII; REMOTE sensing; ENDANGERED species; HAWAIIAN monk seal; EL Nino; MARINE debris; WILDLIFE conservation; WILDLIFE rehabilitation
- Publication
Marine Mammal Science, 2007, Vol 23, Issue 2, p468
- ISSN
0824-0469
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1748-7692.2007.00114.x