Sea turtles face a risk of extinction due to climate change causing warming of nests, which
may increase both sex ratio skews, with fewer males being produced, and embryo mortality …

Understanding the environmental and anthropogenic factors that affect nesting site selection
by sea turtles is key to maintaining priority conservation areas. The species Lepidochelys …

Aim To understand whether climate limits current sea turtle nesting distributions and shapes
the ecological niche of the terrestrial life‐history stage of these wide‐ranging marine …

Whether a sea turtle embryo develops into a male or a female depends, as with many other
reptiles, on the temperature during incubation of the eggs. With sea turtles, warm …

Sandy beach habitat where sea turtles nest will be affected by multiple climate change
impacts. Before these impacts occur, knowledge of how nest site selection and hatching …

Sex determination and hatching success in sea turtles is temperature dependent and as a
result global warming poses a threat to sea turtles. Warmer sand temperatures may skew …

A 200-year time series of incubation temperatures and primary sex ratios for green
(Chelonia mydas), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) and leatherback (Dermochelys …

Nest selection has important consequences for fitness in freshwater turtles, as nest
predation is extremely high in most populations. However, nest predation has rarely been …

The sandy beaches of Zakynthos Island support the largest single nesting aggregation in the
Mediterranean Region of the endangered loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta. The present …

Nest-site selection and the depth at which turtle females deposit their eggs have a decisive
influence on temperature in the nest chamber. Thus, female turtle nesting behaviour can …