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International Whaling Commission Meeting AbstractsBarragán-Barrera DC, May-Collado LJ, Islas-Villanueva, V., Caballero S. Isolated in the Caribbean: low genetic diversity of a bottlenose dolphin in Bocas del Toro, Panama. International Whaling Commission 2015; SC/66a/SM/13
May-Collado, L. J., Trejos, L., Perez B., Gamboa-Poveda, M., Casas J.J., Jacome G., and A. Gonzalez. Panacetacea efforts for a participatory conservation planning of the dolphin watching industry in Bocas del Toro, Panama. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW1 _
May-Collado, L. J. and D. Wartzok. The effect of dolphin watching boat noise levels on the whistle acoustic structure of dolphins in Bocas del Toro, Panama. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW5.
May-Collado, L. J. The acoustic behavior of Bocas del Toro dolphins varies with watercraft activity International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW6.
Trejos Lasso, L. and May-Collado, L. J. Bottlenose dolphins tursiops truncatus strandings in Bocas del Toro caused by boat strikes and fishing entanglement. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW7.
May-Collado, L. J., Quiñones-Lebrón, S. G., Barragán-Barrera, D. C., Jose D. Palacios, Monica Gamboa-Poveda, and A. Kassamali-Fox. The Bocas del Toro dolphin watching industry relies on a small community of bottlenose dolphins: implications for management. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW10.
Kassamali-Fox. A., Christiansen, F., Quinones-Lebron, S., Rusk, A., May-Collado, LJ, and B. Kaplin. Using Markov chains to model the impacts of the dolphin watching industry on the dolphin community of Dolphin Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW11.
Rasmussen, K and Palacios D.M. Update on Humpback whale research in the Gulf of Chiriqui, Western Panama, 2014.
Sitar, A., May-Collado, LJ, Wright, AJ, Peter-Burton, E, Rockwood, L, and ECM Parsons. The effect of whale watching vessels on the behaviour of common bottlenose dolphins (tursiops truncatus) in Bocas del Toro, Panama. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW12.
Sitar, A., May-Collado, LJ, Wright, AJ, Peter-Burton, E, Rockwood, L, and ECM Parsons. Low levels of compliance with national whale watching regulations in dolphin watching boat operators in Bocas del toro, Panama. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW14.
Sitar, A., May-Collado, LJ, Wright, AJ, Peter-Burton, E, Rockwood, L, and ECM Parsons. Tourists perspectives on dolphin watching in Bocas del Toro, Panama support sustainable and educational tourism. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW15 _.
Sitar, A., May-Collado, LJ, Wright, AJ, Peter-Burton, E, Rockwood, L, and ECM Parsons. Opinions and perspectives of the dolphin watching boat operators in Bocas del Toro, Panama. International Whaling Commission 2015. SC/66a/WW16.
May-Collado, L. J., Quiñones-Lebrón, S. G., Barragán-Barrera, D. C., Jose D. Palacios, Monica Gamboa-Poveda. 2014. The dolphin watching industry of Bocas del Toro continues impacting the resident bottlenose dolphin population. International Whaling Commission, Slovenia. SC/65b/WW06.
Sitar, A., May-Collado, L. J., Parsons E. C. M. 2014. High levels of non-compliance with whale-watching regulations in Bocas del Toro, Panama and effects of non-compliance on bottlenose dolphin behavior. International Whaling Commission, Slovenia. SC/65b/WW09.
May-Collado, L. J.1,2, Barragán-Barrera, D. C.3, Quiñones-Lebrón, S. G.1, & W. Aquino-Reynoso1. 2012. Dolphin watching boats impact on habitat use and communication of bottlenose dolphins in Bocas delToro, Panama during 2004, 2006-2010. International Whaling Commission. SC/64/WW2.
Barragán-Barrera DC, May-Collado LJ, Quiñones-Lebrón SG, Caballero S. Population at risk: low genetic diversity in bottlenose dolphins of Bocas del Toro, Panama. International Whaling Commission 2013; SC/65a/SM15: 1–11.
Gamboa-Poveda M. and L. J. May-Collado. 2006 Insights on the occurrence, residency, and behavior of two coastal dolphins from Gandoca-Manzanillo, Costa Rica: Sotalia guianensis and Tursiops truncatus (Family Delphinidae). International Whaling Commission. SC/58/SM4.