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Warmer world to push sea turtle numbers up

2014-05-19 14:42:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Some like it hot While warming temperatures will produce more female than male sea turtle hatchings, sea turtle populations will not crash - at least for the next few decades, a new study suggests. In fact, sea turtle populations will increase because males breed more frequently than females, report researchers today in Nature Climate Change. Sex in many reptile species is determined by temperature during incubation. For sea turtles incubation temperatures below 29°C produce male hatchlings;...

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