Investigating the potential impacts of climate change on a marine turtle population

By Lucy A. Hawkes, AC Broderick, Matthew H. Godfrey, Bj Godley. 2007

414 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. G. Hays
2. C. Limpus
3. M. Chaloupka
4. Bj Godley
5. AC Broderick
6. Lucy A. Hawkes
7. K. Bjorndal
8. M. Hamann

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. G. Hays
2. Bj Godley
3. M. Chaloupka
4. C. Limpus
5. AC Broderick
6. P. Casale
7. K. Bjorndal
8. Lucy A. Hawkes

Citations in the corpus

• Proxy indicators of sand temperature help project impacts of global warming on sea turtles in northern Australia (2009, methodology): “The impacts are likely to manifest themselves in 2 key ways: a skewing of gender ratios in nests towards most or even all females (Mrosovsky 1994, Hawkes et al. 2007), and increased incidences of scale and morphological abnormalities as well as an increase in hatchling mortality rates (Hawkes et…”
• A potential tool to mitigate the impacts of climate change to the caribbean leatherback sea turtle (2012, background): “In addition, incubation temperatures, and thus the sex ratio of hatchlings, vary over time and space (Hawkes et al., 2007) in relation to the position and depth of nests, the colour (albedo) of the sand (Standora & Spotila, 1985; Spotila et al., 1987; Hays et al., 1995) and climatic conditions such…”
• Travelling through a warming world: climate change and migratory species. (2009, background): “…programmes (Box 2) have been crucial in identifying conservation priorities and providing base-line data against which the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and migratory species have already been highlighted (Crick & Sparks 1999, Warren et al. 2001, Hays et al. 2005, Hawkes et al. 2007).”
• Climate influences the global distribution of sea turtle nesting (2013, background): “These layers are biologically meaningful because air temperatures place enormous constraints on nest temperatures (Godley et al., 2001; Hays et al., 2003; Hawkes et al., 2007).”
• Are we working towards global research priorities for management and conservation of sea turtles (2016, methodology): “In addition, it could be argued that impacts such as climate change (see Q12; although impacts may not always be negative, Hawkes et al. 2007) and pollution (see Q15) are affecting sea turtle populations via habitat degradation.”
• Is climate change affecting the population dynamics of the endangered Pacific loggerhead sea turtle (2008, background): “, 1994) and then faster egg development following mating nearby the rookery (Hawkes et al., 2007).”
• Sand temperatures for nesting sea turtles in the Caribbean: Implications for hatchling sex ratios in the face of climate change (2016, methodology): “On the other hand, similar relationships between air temperature and sand temperature were found at other sites across the world and were shown to be robust and informative (e.g. Hawkes et al., 2007; Laloë et al., 2014; Santidrián Tomillo et al., 2015).”
• Management strategies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on sea turtle’s terrestrial reproductive phase (2011, positive): “Expected increases in temperature may result in highly femalebiased populations and lower hatchling survival rates (Broderick et al. 2001; Godley et al. 2001; Hawkes et al. 2007; Fuentes et al. 2009, 2010a).”
• The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (2016, result): “Most evidence for impacts on TSD in marine systems, however, is derived from experimental studies, which provide strong support for TSD changes in sea turtles and various fish species (32, 33).”
• Global Conservation Priorities for Marine Turtles (2011, neutral): “This was a disadvantage to those RMUs where impacts of either or both of these threats are reasonably well-known (e.g. pollution and pathogens for C. mydas, North Central Pacific Ocean [Hawaii]: [35,36]; climate change for C. caretta, Northwest Atlantic Ocean: [37]; C. mydas, Southwest Pacific Ocean”
• Past, current and future thermal profiles of green turtle nesting grounds: Implications from climate change (2010, background): “Animals expected to be the most vulnerable are those that are heavily reliant on environmental temperature for their life history traits and/or those that exhibit temperaturedependent sexual determination (TSD) (Janzen, 1994; Hawkes et al., 2007, 2009; Mitchell, et al., 2009; Telemeco et al., 2009).”
• Effect of High Temperature on Survival, Growth and Feed Conversion Ratio of Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (2011, background): “The effects of climate change on the sex ratios have already been inferred for some sea turtles with TSD (Kamel and Mrosovsky, 2006; Hawkes et al., 2007) and for a few fish species (Strüssmann et al., 1998).”