Status, trends and conservation of global sea turtle populations

GC Hays, JO Laloë, JA Seminoff - Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 2025 - nature.com
Sea turtles experienced myriad human impacts during the twentieth century that caused
extreme mortality across all seven species. Extensive conservation efforts have been …

A pulse check for trends in sea turtle numbers across the globe

GC Hays, G Schofield, M Papazekou, A Chatzimentor… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Population declines of vertebrates are common, but rebuilding marine life may be possible.
We assessed trends in sea turtle numbers globally, building 61 time series of abundance …

A systematic review of the impact of chemical pollution on sea turtles: insights from biomarkers of aquatic contamination

VHV Dias, JJ Mattos, PP Serafini, KH Lüchmann… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chemical anthropogenic contaminants in the marine environment pose a substantial threat
to sea turtles. The current systematic review quantified the published literature on …

An investigation of some persistent organic pollutants in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)

O Kuzukiran, I Simsek, E Kara… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The study assessed persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Caretta caretta turtles along
Turkish coasts, analyzing bioaccumulation in accessible organs and discerning sex-related …

Decoding sex-specific metabolomic biomarkers in the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)

PJ Marín-García, D García-Párraga… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
There is need for advancing minimally invasive diagnostic techniques for sex differentiation
at early life-stage classes in sea turtles. The objectives of this study were to determine …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical evidence for the extent of spatial and temporal thermal variation on sea turtle nesting beaches

HJ Stokes, JO Laloë, N Esteban, GC Hays - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Recording sand temperatures has become routine at many sea turtle nesting sites across
the world given the impacts of incubation temperatures on hatchling sex ratios. However, the …

Variability in thermal tolerance of clutches from different mothers indicates adaptation potential to climate warming in sea turtles

C Kynoch, FV Paladino, JR Spotila… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The current climate warming is a challenge to biodiversity that could surpass the adaptation
capacity of some species. Hence, understanding the means by which populations undergo …

The Ionian Sea in the eastern Mediterranean: Critical year-round habitats for sea turtles and diverse marine megafauna, spanning all life stages and genders

M Papazekou, C Dimitriadis, D Dalla, CM Comis… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conserving marine megafauna is a complex task, particularly due to the gaps in our
knowledge regarding their distribution and susceptibility to human pressures. While the …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying biomarkers of pollutant exposure in ocean sentinels: Characterisation and optimisation of B-esterases in plasma from loggerhead turtles …

S Omedes, JL Crespo-Picazo, NJ Robinson… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Sea turtles are frequently proposed as indicator species for assessing ocean health. To
faciliate the use of these species as bioindicators requires the development of tools for …

Abundance, production, and migrations of nesting green turtles at Rose Atoll, American Samoa, a regionally important rookery in the Central South Pacific Ocean

SK Murakawa, AR Gaos, DS Johnson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Sea turtles are a taxon of conservation concern and are highly migratory, exposing them to a
variety of threats (eg, fisheries bycatch, direct harvest) across their lifetime. Understanding …