Marine Mammal Strandings in the United States. Proceedings of the Marine MammalStranding Workshop. (2nd) Held in Miami, Florida on December 3-5, 1987

摘要

A Second Marine Mammal Stranding Workshop was held on 3-5 December. The goals forthe workshop included (1) providing descriptions of some research, especially new techniques, regarding stranded marine mammals; (2) providing a forum where scientists could interact and possibly initiate cooperative research activites; (3) presenting information regarding procedures used effectively to handle stranded animals; (4) assessing ways to standardize data and specimen collection, archiving, and retrieval; and (5) providing a forum for assessing accomplishments and status of regional stranding networks to date, as well as for making recommendations regarding future activities of the networks. The majority of the papers presented at the workshop are presented in this volume, and they address the goals stated above.