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Where were they from? Modelling the source stock of dolphins stranded after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using genetic and stable isotope data

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31/01/2017
Author
Thomas, L.
Booth, C. G.
Rosel, P. E.
Hohn, A.
Litz, J.
Schwacke, L. H.
Keywords
Bayesian hierarchical model
Data integration
Deepwater Horizon
Genetic assignment
Stable isotope ratios
Stranding
QH301 Biology
Ecology
Nature and Landscape Conservation
NDAS
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Understanding the source stock of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus that stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico subsequent to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was essential to accurately quantify injury and apportion individuals to the appropriate stock. The aim of this study, part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA), was to estimate the proportion of the 932 recorded strandings between May 2010 and June 2014 that came from coastal versus bay, sound and estuary (BSE) stocks. Four sources of relevant information were available on overlapping subsets totaling 336 (39%) of the strandings: genetic stock assignment, stable isotope ratios, photo-ID and individual genetic-ID. We developed a hierarchical Bayesian model for combining these sources that weighted each data source for each stranding according to a measure of estimated precision: the effective sample size (ESS). The photo- and genetic-ID data were limited and considered to potentially introduce biases, so these data sources were excluded from analyses used in the NRDA. Estimates were calculated separately in 3 regions: East (of the Mississippi outflow), West (of the Mississippi outflow through Vermilion Bay, Louisiana) and Western Louisiana (west of Vermilion Bay to the Texas-Louisiana border); the estimated proportions of coastal strandings were, respectively 0.215 (95% CI: 0.169-0.263), 0.016 (0.036-0.099) and 0.622 (0.487-0.803). This method represents a general approach for integrating multiple sources of information that have differing uncertainties.
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Thomas , L , Booth , C G , Rosel , P E , Hohn , A , Litz , J & Schwacke , L H 2017 , ' Where were they from? Modelling the source stock of dolphins stranded after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using genetic and stable isotope data ' , Endangered Species Research , vol. 33 , no. 1 , pp. 253-264 . https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00754
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Endangered Species Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00754
ISSN
1863-5407
Type
Journal article
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© The authors and (outside the USA) the US Government 2017. Open Access under Creative Commons by Attribution Licence. Use, distribution and reproduction are un restricted. Authors and original publication must be credited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10586

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