14.3 Threat: Transportation and service corridors

• Other Authors: Sutherland, William Junior, Dicks, Lynn V., Petrovan, Silviu O., Smith, Rebecca K.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers 2022
• Subjects: practical intervention; farmland; soil fertility; conservation; environment; forest; environmental study; amphibian; bat; bird; invasive specie; Environmental Studies; SCI000000; SCI016000; PD; PNT; Indian; Lanes; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://books.openedition.org/obp/25310

14.3.1 Shipping lanes Likely to be beneficial Set and enforce vessel speed limits Two studies evaluated the effects on marine and freshwater mammals of setting and enforcing vessel speed limits. One study was in the Indian River estuarine system (USA) and the other in the North Atlantic Ocean (USA). COMMUNITY RESPONSE (0 STUDIES) POPULATION RESPONSE (2 STUDIES) Survival (2 studies): One before-and-after study in the Indian River estuarine system found similar numbers of manatee deaths before.