Do long-term changes in sea surface temperature at the breeding areas affect the breeding dates and reproduction performance of Mediterranean loggerhead turtles? Implications for climate change

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Phenological changes in intertidal con‐specific gastropods in response to climate warming (2011, background): “…few phenological studies undertaken have primarily been limited to planktonic species, which have fast turnover rates (Edwards & Richardson, 2004), or species which are not fully marine (turtles; Weishampel et al., 2004; Mazaris et al., 2008 and birds; Gjerdrum et al., 2003; Gaston et al., 2009).”
Warming advances top-down control and reduces producer biomass in a freshwater plankton community (2017, background): “Earlier studies have also shown advanced consumer phenology in response to warming in a variety of ecosystems, for instance for freshwater zooplankton (Adrian et al. 2006), marine turtles (Mazaris et al. 2008), and Mediterranean butterflies (Stefanescu et al. 2003).”
Inter-annual variability in the home range of breeding turtles: implications for current and future conservation management. (2010, background): “As ectotherms, sea turtles are thermally sensitive, and earlier egg-laying of a magnitude of 10– 17 days based on long-term datasets has been recorded in relation to warmer sea temperatures (Weishampel et al., 2004; Pike et al., 2006; Mazaris et al., 2008), with an estimated shift of 1 day per year.”