Warmer and wetter conditions will reduce offspring production of hawksbill turtles in Brazil under climate change.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is expected to impact animals that are heavily reliant on environmental factors, such as sea turtles, since the incubation of their eggs, hatching success and sex ratio are influenced by the environment in which eggs incubate. As climate change progresses it is therefore important to understand how climatic conditions influence their reproductive output and the ramifications to population stability. Here, we examined the influences of five climatic variables (air temperature, accumulated and average precipitation, humidity, solar radiation, and wind speed) at different temporal scales on hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) hatchling production at ten nesting beaches within two regions of Brazil (five nesting beaches in Rio Grande do Norte and five in Bahia). Air te

SUBMITTER: Montero N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224045 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature