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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Travelling through a warming world: climate change and migratory species

RA Robinson, HQP Crick, JA Learmonth… - Endangered species …, 2009 - int-res.com
Long-distance migrations are among the wonders of the natural world, but this multi-taxon
review shows that the characteristics of species that undertake such movements appear to …

Investigating the potential impacts of climate change on a marine turtle population

LA Hawkes, AC Broderick, MH Godfrey… - Global change …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Recent increases in global temperatures have affected the phenology and survival of many
species of plants and animals. We investigated a case study of the effects of potential …

Predicting the impacts of climate change on a globally distributed species: the case of the loggerhead turtle

MJ Witt, LA Hawkes, MH Godfrey… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Marine turtles utilise terrestrial and marine habitats and several aspects of their life history
are tied to environmental features that are altering due to rapid climate change. We overview …

Thermal tolerances of sea turtle embryos: current understanding and future directions

R Howard, I Bell, DA Pike - Endangered Species Research, 2014 - int-res.com
Developing sea turtle embryos only successfully hatch within a relatively narrow
temperature range, rendering this immobile life stage vulnerable to the vagaries of climate …

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 …

Decreasing annual nest counts in a globally important loggerhead sea turtle population

B Witherington, P Kubilis, B Brost… - Ecological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nests on sand beaches, has both oceanic and
neritic life stages, and migrates internationally. We analyzed an 18‐year time series of Index …