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 …

Mother knows best: nest-site choice homogenizes embryo thermal environments among populations in a widespread ectotherm

BL Bodensteiner, JB Iverson… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Species with large geographical ranges provide an excellent model for studying how
different populations respond to dissimilar local conditions, particularly with respect to …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and green sea turtle sex ratio—preventing possible extinction

J Blechschmidt, MJ Wittmann, C Blüml - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Climate change poses a threat to species with temperature-dependent sex determination
(TSD). A recent study on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) at the northern Great Barrier …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying sex of neonate turtles with temperature-dependent sex determination via small blood samples

B Tezak, I Sifuentes-Romero, S Milton, J Wyneken - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Temperature-dependent sex determination, present in most turtle species, is a mechanism
that uses temperature to direct the sex of the embryo. The rapid increase of global …

Potential adaptability of marine turtles to climate change may be hindered by coastal development in the USA

MMPB Fuentes, AJ Allstadt, SA Ceriani… - Regional Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Marine turtles may respond to projected climatic changes by shifting their nesting range to
climatically suitable areas, which may result in either increased exposure to threats or fewer …

Highly feminised sex-ratio estimations for the world's third-largest nesting aggregation of loggerhead sea turtles

CE Tanner, A Marco, S Martins… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Despite being a fundamental life-history character, there is a paucity of population-wide,
data-driven studies of primary sex ratios for any marine turtle species. The Republic of Cape …

The impact of sand moisture on the temperature-sex ratio responses of developing loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles

A Lolavar, J Wyneken - Zoology, 2020 - Elsevier
All species of sea turtles exhibit a cooler male/warmer female temperature-sex ratio
response. Field and experimental studies on loggerhead sea turtle sex ratios suggest that …