Projected response of an endangered marine turtle population to climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 814-820

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

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^d Leatherback Trust   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHING MORTALITY; HATCHING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NEST SITE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX RATIO; TURTLE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

COSTA RICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

CHELONIIDAE; DERMOCHELYIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84868100564     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1582     Document Type: Article

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