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 …

Mediterranean sea turtles: current knowledge and priorities for conservation and research

P Casale, AC Broderick, JA Camiñas… - Endangered species …, 2018 - int-res.com
The available information regarding the 2 sea turtle species breeding in the Mediterranean
(loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta and green turtle Chelonia mydas) is reviewed, including …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental warming and feminization of one of the largest sea turtle populations in the world

MP Jensen, CD Allen, T Eguchi, IP Bell, EL LaCasella… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Climate change affects species and ecosystems around the globe [1]. The impacts of rising
temperature are particularly pertinent in species with temperature-dependent sex …

Global sea turtle conservation successes

AD Mazaris, G Schofield, C Gkazinou… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
We document a tendency for published estimates of population size in sea turtles to be
increasing rather than decreasing across the globe. To examine the population status of the …

Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies

R Schacht, SR Beissinger, C Wedekind… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Converging lines of inquiry from across the social and biological sciences target the adult
sex ratio (ASR; the proportion of males in the adult population) as a fundamental population …

Drones for research on sea turtles and other marine vertebrates–A review

G Schofield, N Esteban, KA Katselidis, GC Hays - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
We review how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), often referred to as drones, are being
deployed to study the abundance and behaviour of sea turtles, identifying some of the …

Adaptation of sea turtles to climate warming: Will phenological responses be sufficient to counteract changes in reproductive output?

M Fuentes, AJB Santos, A Abreu‐Grobois… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sea turtles are vulnerable to climate change since their reproductive output is influenced by
incubating temperatures, with warmer temperatures causing lower hatching success and …

The true depth of the Mediterranean plastic problem: Extreme microplastic pollution on marine turtle nesting beaches in Cyprus

EM Duncan, J Arrowsmith, C Bain, AC Broderick… - Marine Pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
We sampled 17 nesting sites for loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green turtles (Chelonia
mydas) in Cyprus. Microplastics (< 5 mm) were found at all locations and depths, with …

Extreme thermal fluctuations from climate change unexpectedly accelerate demographic collapse of vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination

N Valenzuela, R Literman, JL Neuwald, B Mizoguchi… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Global climate is warming rapidly, threatening vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex
determination (TSD) by disrupting sex ratios and other traits. Less understood are the effects …

Climate change and temperature‐linked hatchling mortality at a globally important sea turtle nesting site

JO Laloë, J Cozens, B Renom, A Taxonera… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The study of temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) in vertebrates has attracted
major scientific interest. Recently, concerns for species with TSD in a warming world have …