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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Climatic variation and tortoise survival: has a desert species met its match?

JE Lovich, CB Yackulic, J Freilich, M Agha… - Biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
While demographic changes in short-lived species may be observed relatively quickly in
response to climate changes, measuring population responses of long-lived species …

Microclimate‐driven trends in spring‐emergence phenology in a temperate reptile (Vipera berus): Evidence for a potential “climate trap”?

RK Turner, IMD Maclean - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change can not only increase the exposure of organisms to higher temperatures but
can also drive phenological shifts that alter their susceptibility to conditions at the onset of …

Projected changes in climatic suitability for Kinosternon turtles by 2050 and 2070

CJ Butler, BD Stanila, JB Iverson… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Chelonians are expected to be negatively impacted by climate change due to limited vagility
and temperature‐dependent sex determination. However, few studies have examined how …

Phenotypic plasticity of nest timing in a post‐glacial landscape: how do reptiles adapt to seasonal time constraints?

CB Edge, N Rollinson, RJ Brooks, JD Congdon… - Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Life histories evolve in response to constraints on the time available for growth and
development. Nesting date and its plasticity in response to spring temperature may therefore …

Turbines and terrestrial vertebrates: variation in tortoise survivorship between a wind energy facility and an adjacent undisturbed wildland area in the desert southwest …

M Agha, JE Lovich, JR Ennen, B Augustine… - Environmental …, 2015 - Springer
With the recent increase in utility-scale wind energy development, researchers have become
increasingly concerned how this activity will affect wildlife and their habitat. To understand …

Not putting all their eggs in one basket: bet-hedging despite extraordinary annual reproductive output of desert tortoises

JE Lovich, JR Ennen, CB Yackulic… - Biological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Bet-hedging theory makes the counter-intuitive prediction that, if juvenile survival is low and
unpredictable, organisms should consistently reduce short-term reproductive output to …

Climate effects on nesting phenology in Nebraska turtles

AR Hedrick, DU Greene, EL Lewis… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A frequent response of organisms to climate change is altering the timing of reproduction,
and advancement of reproductive timing has been a common reaction to warming …

A 21-year study of seasonal and interspecific variation of hatchling emergence in a Nearctic freshwater turtle community: to overwinter or not to overwinter?

JE Lovich, CH Ernst, EM Ernst… - Herpetological …, 2014 - meridian.allenpress.com
Hatchling emergence patterns were studied in a community of six species of freshwater
turtles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA, including: Chelydra serpentina, Chrysemys …