The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic pollution

HV Ford, NH Jones, AJ Davies, BJ Godley… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues
and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an alternative view that these …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Going west: Range expansion for loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean Sea under climate change

C Mancino, D Canestrelli, L Maiorano - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Global changes represent possibly the greatest threat to the future of biodiversity, and this is
especially true for species using very different habitats during their life cycle. The problem is …

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 …

Sandy beach social–ecological systems at risk: regime shifts, collapses, and governance challenges

O Defeo, A McLachlan, D Armitage… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately half of the world's ice‐free ocean coastline is composed of sandy beaches,
which support a higher level of recreational use than any other ecosystem. However, the …

Warming seas increase cold-stunning events for Kemp's ridley sea turtles in the northwest Atlantic

LP Griffin, CR Griffin, JT Finn, RL Prescott, M Faherty… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Since the 1970s, the magnitude of turtle cold-stun strandings have increased dramatically
within the northwestern Atlantic. Here, we examine oceanic, atmospheric, and biological …

A review of the effects of climate change on chelonians

CJ Butler - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change is occurring at an unprecedented rate and has begun to modify the
distribution and phenology of organisms worldwide. Chelonians are expected to be …

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 …

Warmer incubation temperature influences sea turtle survival and nullifies the benefit of a female-biased sex ratio

S Martins, E Silva, E Abella, N de Santos Loureiro… - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
Climate change plays a key role in the development and survival of oviparous ectotherms
such as sea turtles. Higher environmental temperatures are expected to lead to increased …