Informing Species Conservation at Multiple Scales Using Data Collected for Marine Mammal Stock Assessments
Figure 1
The seven dugong aerial survey regions of northeast Australia.
Systematic aerial surveys have been used to monitor the abundance and distribution of dugong populations in northeast Australia since the mid 1980s using strip transect methodology [20]. The outputs of the aerial surveys were used in this paper to develop spatially-explicit models of dugong distribution and relative density in each of the seven survey regions.