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 …

Threats and Vulnerabilities for the Globally Distributed Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) Sea Turtle: A Historical and Current Status Evaluation

L Cáceres-Farias, E Reséndiz, J Espinoza… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Showing one of the most extraordinary phenomena in nature, with
thousands or hundreds of thousands of females coming out of the water to nest in a highly …

Home on the range: spatial ecology of loggerhead turtles in Atlantic waters of the USA

LA Hawkes, MJ Witt, AC Broderick… - Diversity and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although satellite tracking has yielded much information regarding the migrations and
habitat use of threatened marine species, relatively little has been published about the …

Global phylogeography of ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys spp.): evolution, demography, connectivity, and conservation

ST Vilaça, AT Hahn, E Naro-Maciel… - Conservation …, 2022 - Springer
Globally distributed marine taxa are well suited for investigations of biogeographic impacts
on genetic diversity, connectivity, and population demography. The sea turtle genus …

Beyond trophic morphology: stable isotopes reveal ubiquitous versatility in marine turtle trophic ecology

C Figgener, J Bernardo, PT Plotkin - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The idea that interspecific variation in trophic morphology among closely related species
effectively permits resource partitioning has driven research on ecological radiation since …

Migration, distribution, and diving behavior of adult male loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) following dispersal from a major breeding aggregation in the …

MD Arendt, AL Segars, JI Byrd, J Boynton… - Marine Biology, 2012 - Springer
Sixteen satellite-tagged adult male loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) dispersed widely
from an aggregation near Port Canaveral, Florida, USA (28° 23′ N,− 80° 32′ W) after …

[PDF][PDF] The sea turtles of São Tomé and Príncipe: diversity, distribution, and conservation status

B Ferreira-Airaud, V Schmitt, S Vieira… - Biodiversity of the …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
The unique islands of São Tomé and Príncipe harbor five of the seven existent sea turtle
species, and offer optimal conditions for these threatened species both on the beaches and …

[HTML][HTML] Migratory corridors of adult female Kemp's ridley turtles in the Gulf of Mexico

DJ Shaver, KM Hart, I Fujisaki, C Rubio… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
For many marine species, locations of migratory pathways are not well defined. We used
satellite telemetry and switching state-space modeling (SSM) to define the migratory corridor …

Why we mind sea turtles' underwater business: A review on the study of diving behavior

S Hochscheid - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2014 - Elsevier
For most of their lifetime, sea turtles have to organize their underwater activities around the
necessity to return to the surface to breathe. This group of animals has developed …

Biological and ecological traits rather than geography control mercury (Hg) in scutes of marine turtles from the Southwest Atlantic

CA Barrios-Rodriguez, MF Bezerra, N Ristau… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of sentinel species in monitoring programs for toxic metals such as mercury (Hg) is
essential to understand these pollutants' impact on the environment. For this purpose, it is …