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Records of vessel-Florida manatee collision outcomes and empirical boat speeds in Florida waters, 1978 - 2014

Dates

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Start Date
1978
End Date
2014

Citation

Hostetler, J.A., Combs-Hintze, B., Calleson, C.S., Bassett, B.L., Ainsworth, C., and Martin, J., 2025, Records of vessel-Florida manatee collision outcomes and empirical boat speeds in Florida waters, 1978 - 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P134PXAP.

Summary

The dataset contains observational records detailing collisions between boats and Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Data include boat speeds, collision locations, and manatee injury outcomes, and are intended for ecological analysis and conservation purposes.

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BI_2012_13_SpeedGunData.csv 39.13 KB text/csv
CR_2002_SpeedGunData.csv 16.37 KB text/csv
EB_2002_SpeedGunData.csv 37.99 KB text/csv
LB_2005_SpeedGunData.csv 36.27 KB text/csv
LBX_2005_SpeedGunData.csv 1.02 KB text/csv
MP_2002_SpeedGunData.csv 11.95 KB text/csv
PLethalCollision_DataInput.csv 7.12 KB text/csv
TCB_2007_SpeedGunData.csv 17.99 KB text/csv
AnalysisCode.zip 15.1 KB application/zip

Purpose

The data are community-reported values that are part of a surveillance monitoring. The dataset was used to quantify the impact of boat speed on the likelihood of lethal injury to manatees, using Bayesian statistical methods to model this relationship.

Rights

This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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