A review of the effects of climate change on chelonians

CJ Butler - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change is occurring at an unprecedented rate and has begun to modify the
distribution and phenology of organisms worldwide. Chelonians are expected to be …

The sex‐determination pattern in crocodilians: A systematic review of three decades of research

EJ González, M Martínez‐López… - Journal of Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sex in crocodilians is not determined by chromosomes, but by egg incubation temperature,
where different temperatures produce different clutch sex ratios. Two patterns have been …

Climate change resilience of a globally important sea turtle nesting population

AR Patrício, MR Varela, C Barbosa… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Few studies have looked into climate change resilience of populations of wild animals. We
use a model higher vertebrate, the green sea turtle, as its life history is fundamentally …

The climatic debt of loggerhead sea turtle populations in a warming world

JR Monsinjon, J Wyneken, K Rusenko… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Phenological shifts, by initiating reproductive events earlier, in response to advanced
seasonal warming is one of the most striking effects currently observed in wild populations …

Where has turtle ecology been, and where is it going?

JW Gibbons, JE Lovich - Herpetologica, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Over 9000 articles have been published on turtles and tortoises (excluding sea turtles) since
1950 according to the Web of Science, including over 8000 contained in a personal …

Breadth of the thermal response captures individual and geographic variation in temperature‐dependent sex determination

AL Carter, BL Bodensteiner, JB Iverson… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Population‐scale responses of key ecological traits to local environmental conditions
provide insight into their adaptive potential. In species with temperature‐dependent sex …

Potential male leatherback hatchlings exhibit higher fitness which might balance sea turtle sex ratios in the face of climate change

ML Rivas, N Esteban, A Marco - Climatic Change, 2019 - Springer
Sea turtles are vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination. Rising
temperatures due to climate change cause female-biased sex ratios. We have assessed the …

[HTML][HTML] No evidence of fine scale thermal adaptation in green turtles

D Tilley, S Ball, J Ellick, BJ Godley, N Weber… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Adaptation to increasing temperatures may enable species to mitigate the long-term impacts
of climate change. Sea turtles have temperature dependent sex determination (TSD) and …

Measurement and modelling of primary sex ratios for species with temperature-dependent sex determination

MD Massey, SM Holt, RJ Brooks… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
For many oviparous animals, incubation temperature influences sex through temperature-
dependent sex determination (TSD). Although climate change may skew sex ratios in …

Population structure leads to male-biased population sex ratios under environmental sex determination

EG Butka, S Freedberg - Evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Spatial structure has been shown to favor female-biased sex allocation, but current theory
fails to explain male biases seen in many taxa, particularly those with environmental sex …