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 …

Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents

SF Gilbert, TCG Bosch, C Ledón-Rettig - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The integration of research from developmental biology and ecology into evolutionary theory
has given rise to a relatively new field, ecological evolutionary developmental biology (Eco …

Global sea turtle conservation successes

AD Mazaris, G Schofield, C Gkazinou… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
We document a tendency for published estimates of population size in sea turtles to be
increasing rather than decreasing across the globe. To examine the population status of the …

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 …

The effects of climate change and land‐use change on demographic rates and population viability

KE Selwood, MA McGeoch, R Mac Nally - Biological Reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the processes that lead to species extinctions is vital for lessening pressures
on biodiversity. While species diversity, presence and abundance are most commonly used …

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 …

Sun exposure, nest temperature and loggerhead turtle hatchlings: Implications for beach shading management strategies at sea turtle rookeries

A Wood, DT Booth, CJ Limpus - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sea turtle incubation biology is tightly linked to nest thermal conditions due to the effect
temperature has on hatching success, sex determination, morphology and locomotion …

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 …

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 …

Shading and watering as a tool to mitigate the impacts of climate change in sea turtle nests

JE Hill, FV Paladino, JR Spotila, PS Tomillo - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Increasing sand temperatures resulting from climate change may negatively impact sea
turtle nests by altering sex ratios and decreasing reproductive output. We analyzed the effect …