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 …

Mediterranean sea turtles: current knowledge and priorities for conservation and research

P Casale, AC Broderick, JA Camiñas… - Endangered species …, 2018 - int-res.com
The available information regarding the 2 sea turtle species breeding in the Mediterranean
(loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta and green turtle Chelonia mydas) is reviewed, including …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental warming and feminization of one of the largest sea turtle populations in the world

MP Jensen, CD Allen, T Eguchi, IP Bell, EL LaCasella… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Climate change affects species and ecosystems around the globe [1]. The impacts of rising
temperature are particularly pertinent in species with temperature-dependent sex …

Drones for research on sea turtles and other marine vertebrates–A review

G Schofield, N Esteban, KA Katselidis, GC Hays - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
We review how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), often referred to as drones, are being
deployed to study the abundance and behaviour of sea turtles, identifying some of the …

Population viability at extreme sex-ratio skews produced by temperature-dependent sex determination

GC Hays, AD Mazaris… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
For species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) there is the fear that rising
temperatures may lead to single-sex populations and population extinction. We show that for …

Detecting elusive aspects of wildlife ecology using drones: New insights on the mating dynamics and operational sex ratios of sea turtles

G Schofield, KA Katselidis, MKS Lilley… - Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Offspring and breeding (operational) sex ratios (OSR) are a key component of demographic
studies. While offspring sex ratios are often relatively easy to measure, measuring OSR s is …

Biodiversity Research: fidelity to foraging sites, consistency of migration routes and habitat modulation of home range by sea turtles

G Schofield, VJ Hobson, S Fossette… - Diversity and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Resources can shape patterns of habitat utilization. Recently a broad foraging
dichotomy between oceanic and coastal sites has been revealed for loggerhead sea turtles …

Different male vs. female breeding periodicity helps mitigate offspring sex ratio skews in sea turtles

GC Hays, AD Mazaris, G Schofield - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The implications of climate change for global biodiversity may be profound with those
species with little capacity for adaptation being thought to be particularly vulnerable to …

The potential of unmanned aerial systems for sea turtle research and conservation: a review and future directions

AF Rees, L Avens, K Ballorain, E Bevan… - Endangered Species …, 2018 - int-res.com
The use of satellite systems and manned aircraft surveys for remote data collection has been
shown to be transformative for sea turtle conservation and research by enabling the …

Climate change and nesting behaviour in vertebrates: a review of the ecological threats and potential for adaptive responses

MC Mainwaring, I Barber, DC Deeming… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nest building is a taxonomically widespread and diverse trait that allows animals to alter
local environments to create optimal conditions for offspring development. However, there is …