Vulnerability of marine turtles to climate change

ES Poloczanska, CJ Limpus, GC Hays - Advances in marine biology, 2009 - Elsevier
Marine turtles are generally viewed as vulnerable to climate change because of the role that
temperature plays in the sex determination of embryos, their long life history, long age-to …

Critical approaches to sex determination in sea turtles

T Wibbels, PL Lutz, JA Musick… - The biology of sea …, 2003 - books.google.com
Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) was first reported in 1966 in a lizard. 1
Since that time it has been shown to occur in a wide variety of reptiles, including all …

Ocean systems

HO Pörtner, DM Karl, PW Boyd, W Cheung… - Climate change 2014 …, 2014 - epic.awi.de
Ocean ecosystems have responded and will continue to respond to climate changes of
different rates, magnitudes, and durations (virtually certain). Human societies depend on …

The conservation status of the world's reptiles

M Böhm, B Collen, JEM Baillie, P Bowles… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their
distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which …

Climate warming and the decline of amphibians and reptiles in Europe

MB Araújo, W Thuiller, RG Pearson - Journal of biogeography, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We explore the relationship between current European distributions of amphibian and
reptile species and observed climate, and project species potential distributions into the …

Climate change and marine turtles

LA Hawkes, AC Broderick, MH Godfrey… - Endangered Species …, 2009 - int-res.com
Marine turtles occupy a wide range of terrestrial and marine habitats, and many aspects of
their life history have been demonstrated to be closely tied to climatic variables such as …

Climate change and Australian marine life

ES Poloczanska, RC Babcock, A Butler… - … and marine biology, 2007 - books.google.com
Australia's marine life is highly diverse and endemic. Here we describe projections of
climate change in Australian waters and examine from the literature likely impacts of these …

Climate change and sea turtles: a 150‐year reconstruction of incubation temperatures at a major marine turtle rookery

GC Hays, AC Broderick, F Glen… - Global Change …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Sea turtles show temperature dependent sex determination. Using an empirical relationship
between sand and air temperature, we reconstructed the nest temperatures since 1855 at …

Temperature-dependent sex determination and global change: are some species at greater risk?

V Hulin, V Delmas, M Girondot, MH Godfrey, JM Guillon - Oecologia, 2009 - Springer
In species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), global climate change may
result in a strong sex ratio bias that could lead to extinction. The relationship between sex …

The importance of sand albedo for the thermal conditions on sea turtle nesting beaches

GC Hays, JS Ashworth, MJ Barnsley, AC Broderick… - Oikos, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
At Ascension Island and Cyprus, major nesting areas for green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in
the Atlantic and Mediterranean, respectively, visual inspection shows some beaches are …