Predicting the impacts of climate change on a globally distributed species: the case of the loggerhead turtle

MJ Witt, LA Hawkes, MH Godfrey… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Marine turtles utilise terrestrial and marine habitats and several aspects of their life history
are tied to environmental features that are altering due to rapid climate change. We overview …

Loggerhead sea turtle environmental sex determination: implications of moisture and temperature for climate change based predictions for species survival

J Wyneken, A Lolavar - Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
It has been proposed that because marine turtles have environmentally determined sex by
incubation temperature, elevated temperatures might skew sex ratios to unsustainable …

Warm water and cool nests are best. How global warming might influence hatchling green turtle swimming performance

DT Booth, A Evans - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
For sea turtles nesting on beaches surrounded by coral reefs, the most important element of
hatchling recruitment is escaping predation by fish as they swim across the fringing reef, and …

Balanced primary sex ratios and resilience to climate change in a major sea turtle population

AR Patrício, A Marques, C Barbosa… - Marine Ecology …, 2017 - int-res.com
Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on biodiversity. Sea turtles have
temperature-dependent sex determination, and many populations produce highly female …

Vegetation cover predicts temperature in nests of the hawksbill sea turtle: implications for beach management and offspring sex ratios

SJ Kamel - Endangered Species Research, 2013 - int-res.com
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 …

Paternal genotype reconstruction reveals multiple paternity and sex ratios in a breeding population of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)

KR Stewart, PH Dutton - Conservation genetics, 2011 - Springer
When animals are difficult to observe while breeding, insights into the mating system may be
gained by using molecular techniques. Patterns of extra-pair copulation, multiple paternity …

[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 …

Spatio-temporal variation in the incubation duration and sex ratio of hawksbill hatchlings: implication for future management

MAG dei Marcovaldi, AJB Santos, AS Santos… - Journal of Thermal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Climate change poses a unique threat to species with temperature dependent sex
determination (TSD), such as marine turtles, where increases in temperature can result in …

Potential limitations of behavioral plasticity and the role of egg relocation in climate change mitigation for a thermally sensitive endangered species

MJ Liles, TR Peterson, JA Seminoff… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change is widely considered a major threat to global biodiversity,
such that the ability of a species to adapt will determine its likelihood of survival. Egg …

Estimating the sex ratio of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Taiwan by the nest temperature and histological methods

R King, WH Cheng, CT Tseng, H Chen… - Journal of experimental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Sex ratio is an important population characteristic. It is especially important for endangered
species with temperature-dependent sex determination, such as sea turtles. As turtle sex …