Warm water and cool nests are best. How global warming might influence hatchling green turtle swimming performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Booth, David T ^a   Evans, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HATCHLING; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; SWIMMING; TURTLE; VELOCITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANTHOZOA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; GLOBAL WARMING; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

EID: 79961056772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023162     Document Type: Article

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