Mar. Mamm. Sci. 15(3): 766-785. 8 figs. "July 1999" (mailed June 8, 1999).

–Concludes in regard to Florida manatees that previously-used multiple regression models overestimated the rate of change of the East Coast population as determined from three other sources (a covariance model, a non-linear model, and the rate estimated from reproductive and survival data) (766-767, 770-774, 781-783).