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 …

Can nesting behaviour allow reptiles to adapt to climate change?

WG Du, SR Li, BJ Sun, R Shine - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A range of abiotic parameters within a reptile nest influence the viability and attributes
(including sex, behaviour and body size) of hatchlings that emerge from that nest. As a result …

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 …

Temperature‐dependent sex determination in sea turtles in the context of climate change: uncovering the adaptive significance

P Santidrián Tomillo, JR Spotila - BioEssays, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive significance of temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) in reptiles
remains unknown decades after TSD was first identified in this group. Concurrently, there is …

Can a present-day thermal niche be preserved in a warming climate by a shift in phenology? A case study with sea turtles

JO Laloë, GC Hays - Royal Society Open Science, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How species respond to climate change may impact their extinction probability. Here we link
climatology and ecology to tackle a globally important conservation question. For sea turtles …

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 …

Artificial and natural shade: Implications for green turtle (Chelonia mydas) rookery management

I Reboul, D Booth, U Rusli - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Global sea turtle populations are threatened by rising atmospheric temperatures which
result in higher incubation temperatures. Increased incubation temperatures affect embryo …

Low male production at the world's largest green turtle rookery

DT Booth, A Dunstan, I Bell, R Reina… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2020 - int-res.com
Because the sex of all sea turtle hatchlings is determined by incubation temperature, with
low temperatures producing mainly males and high temperatures producing mainly females …

A review of the effects of incubation conditions on hatchling phenotypes in non-squamate reptiles

CR Gatto, RD Reina - Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 2022 - Springer
Develo** embryos of oviparous reptiles show substantial plasticity in their responses to
environmental conditions during incubation, which can include altered sex ratios …