Climate change and marine turtles: recent advances and future directions

AR Patrício, LA Hawkes, JR Monsinjon… - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the effects of incubation conditions on hatchling phenotypes in non-squamate reptiles

CR Gatto, RD Reina - Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2022 - Springer
Developing embryos of oviparous reptiles show substantial plasticity in their responses to
environmental conditions during incubation, which can include altered sex ratios …

[HTML][HTML] Potential impacts of sea level rise and beach flooding on reproduction of sea turtles

S Martins, J Patino, E Abella… - Climate Change …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change scenarios predict an increase in global temperature and sea level rise. For
sea turtles, the association between sea level rise, nest water content and temperature …

Impact of heavy rainfall events and shading on the temperature of sea turtle nests

MN Staines, DT Booth, CA Madden Hof, GC Hays - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
While most studies assessing the ecological impacts of climate change have examined
impacts from warming temperatures, less attention has been given to other parameters such …

Trialling seawater irrigation to combat the high nest temperature feminisation of green turtle Chelonia mydas hatchlings

CE Smith, DT Booth, A Crosby, JD Miller… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Global increases in beach sand temperatures are predicted to skew hatchling sex ratios of
marine turtle populations towards female bias. Currently, shade structures and freshwater …

Low male production at the world's largest green turtle rookery

DT Booth, A Dunstan, I Bell, R Reina… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2020 - int-res.com
Because the sex of all sea turtle hatchlings is determined by incubation temperature, with
low temperatures producing mainly males and high temperatures producing mainly females …

Mitigating the effects of climate change on the nests of sea turtles with artificial irrigation

CR Gatto, SA Williamson, RD Reina - Conservation biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For sea turtles, like many oviparous species, increasing temperatures during development
threaten to increase embryonic mortality, alter offspring quality, and potentially create …

Effects of moisture during incubation on green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) development, morphology and performance

BL Matthews, CR Gatto, RD Reina - Endangered Species Research, 2021 - int-res.com
While the effect of temperature on embryonic development in sea turtles has been well
studied over recent years, our understanding of the effect of substrate moisture, another …

Vulnerability of sea turtle nesting sites to erosion and inundation: A decision support framework to maximize conservation

M Gammon, S Whiting, S Fossette - Ecosphere, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sandy beaches provide essential nesting habitats for sea turtles but are threatened globally
by a rapidly changing climate. Identifying which nesting sites are at the greatest risk from …

Seawater irrigation on nests can increase male marine turtle production

LR Young, DT Booth, CE Smith, CAM Hof - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2023 - int-res.com
Global warming is increasing marine turtle nesting beach sand temperatures throughout the
world. All marine turtles have temperature-dependent sex determination, with female …