Effects of rising temperature on the viability of an important sea turtle rookery

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 513-518

  Laloë, Jacques Olivier ^a   Cozens, Jacquie ^b   Renom, Berta ^b   Taxonera, Albert ^b   Hays, Graeme C ^a,c  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SOS Tartarugas ^*  (Cape Verde)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION GROWTH; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURTLE;

EID: 84901593369     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2236     Document Type: Article

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