Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities

DJ Watchorn, MA Cowan, DA Driscoll… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat loss and degradation, and their interaction with other threats, are driving declines in
animal populations worldwide. One potential approach for mitigating these threats is to …

Sex ratios in a warming world: thermal effects on sex-biased survival, sex determination, and sex reversal

S Edmands - Journal of Heredity, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rising global temperatures threaten to disrupt population sex ratios, which can in turn cause
mate shortages, reduce population growth and adaptive potential, and increase extinction …

Global warming and its implications on nature tourism at Phinda Private Game Reserve, South Africa

ZE Sibitane, K Dube, L Lekaota - International Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The past decade recorded the highest number of high impact extreme weather events such
as flooding, rainfall events, fires, droughts, and heatwaves amongst others. One of the key …

Key issues in assessing threats to sea turtles: knowledge gaps and future directions

MMPB Fuentes, E McMichael, CY Kot… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
Sea turtles are an iconic group of marine megafauna that have been exposed to multiple
anthropogenic threats across their different life stages, especially in the past decades. This …

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 …

Impact of heavy rainfall events and shading on the temperature of sea turtle nests

MN Staines, DT Booth, CA Madden Hof, GC Hays - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
While most studies assessing the ecological impacts of climate change have examined
impacts from warming temperatures, less attention has been given to other parameters such …

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 …

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 …

Extreme thermal conditions in sea turtle nests jeopardize reproductive output

O Turkozan, V Almpanidou, C Yılmaz, AD Mazaris - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
The magnitude and frequency of extreme warming events over the last decades pose
threats to biodiversity. In the near future, heatwaves will become even more frequent and …

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 …