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 …

Climate change and nesting behaviour in vertebrates: a review of the ecological threats and potential for adaptive responses

MC Mainwaring, I Barber, DC Deeming… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nest building is a taxonomically widespread and diverse trait that allows animals to alter
local environments to create optimal conditions for offspring development. However, there is …

Population viability at extreme sex-ratio skews produced by temperature-dependent sex determination

GC Hays, AD Mazaris… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
For species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) there is the fear that rising
temperatures may lead to single-sex populations and population extinction. We show that for …

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 …

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 …

Sand temperatures for nesting sea turtles in the Caribbean: Implications for hatchling sex ratios in the face of climate change

JO Laloë, N Esteban, J Berkel, GC Hays - Journal of Experimental Marine …, 2016 - Elsevier
A 200-year time series of incubation temperatures and primary sex ratios for green
(Chelonia mydas), hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) and leatherback (Dermochelys …

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 …

Population viability of sea turtles in the context of global warming

AS Maurer, JA Seminoff, CA Layman, SP Stapleton… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sea turtles present a model for the potential impacts of climate change on imperiled species,
with projected warming generating concern about their persistence. Various sea turtle life …

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 …

Nest-site selection influences offspring sex ratio in green turtles, a species with temperature-dependent sex determination

L Heredero Saura, L Jáñez-Escalada, J López Navas… - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
Climate change threatens species with temperature-dependent sex determination as further
warming could result in extremely biased sex ratios or offspring of only one sex. Among the …