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 …

Conservation implications of sea turtle nesting trends: elusive recovery of a globally important loggerhead population

SA Ceriani, P Casale, M Brost, EH Leone… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding population status and trends is important for developing and evaluating
management and conservation actions for threatened species. Monitoring population status …

[HTML][HTML] Global trends in sea turtle research and conservation: Using symposium abstracts to assess past biases and future opportunities

NJ Robinson, J Aguzzi, S Arias, C Gatto… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We quantified research trends in the field of sea turtle science by collating data from 30
years of abstracts presented annually at the International Sea Turtle Symposium–the largest …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of microplastic on the thermal profile of sand: implications for marine turtle nesting grounds

MMPB Fuentes, V Beckwidth, M Ware - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Microplastics (ie, plastic debris smaller than 5mm) found in coastal areas can
impact the marine habitat used by endangered species since they may alter sand properties …

The climatic debt of loggerhead sea turtle populations in a warming world

JR Monsinjon, J Wyneken, K Rusenko… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Phenological shifts, by initiating reproductive events earlier, in response to advanced
seasonal warming is one of the most striking effects currently observed in wild populations …

Microplastic at nesting grounds used by the northern Gulf of Mexico loggerhead recovery unit

VK Beckwith, MMPB Fuentes - Marine pollution bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Microplastics can impact key habitats used by endangered species, such as marine turtles.
They impact the environment by transporting toxicants and altering sediment properties …

Trialling seawater irrigation to combat the high nest temperature feminisation of green turtle Chelonia mydas hatchlings

CE Smith, DT Booth, A Crosby, JD Miller… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Global increases in beach sand temperatures are predicted to skew hatchling sex ratios of
marine turtle populations towards female bias. Currently, shade structures and freshwater …

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 …

Comprehensive health assessment of green turtles Chelonia mydas nesting in southeastern Florida, USA

A Page-Karjian, R Chabot, NI Stacy… - Endangered Species …, 2020 - int-res.com
Important indicators of population health needed for large-scale sea turtle population
recovery efforts include demographics, disease and mortality trends, condition indices, and …

[HTML][HTML] Forty years of monitoring increasing sea turtle relative abundance in the Gulf of Mexico

JA Lasala, MC Macksey, KT Mazzarella, KL Main… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Longitudinal data sets for population abundance are essential for studies of imperiled
organisms with long life spans or migratory movements, such as marine turtles. Population …