Climate driven egg and hatchling mortality threatens survival of Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tomillo, Pilar Santidrián ^a,b   Saba, Vincent S ^c,f   Blanco, Gabriela S ^a   Stock, Charles A ^d   Paladino, Frank V ^e   Spotila, James R ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Leatherback Trust   (Costa Rica)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; DERMOCHELYS CORICEA; ECOTOXICITY; EGG PRODUCTION; EL NINO; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HATCHING; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TURTLE; ANIMAL; CLUTCH SIZE; HUMIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHELONIIDAE; DERMOCHELYIDAE; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUTCH SIZE; COSTA RICA; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HUMIDITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; OVUM; PACIFIC OCEAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

EID: 84861379065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037602     Document Type: Article

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