Sea Turtle Nesting: What Is Known and What Are the Challenges under a Changing Climate Scenario

The rate of climate change experienced globally in recent decades may compromise sea turtles’ survival; especially temperature increase, which is particularly fast, impacts life history characteristics, such as temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), late maturity and turtles highly migratory nature. This review aims to identify summarize the information that has been collected from 2009-2020 order aid future empirical studies seek fill these other knowledge gaps, subsequently assist conservationists making multilevel decisions protect turtle populations species. In a summarized way general acquired so far on influence environmental abiotic biotic factors nesting behaviour hatching, emergence survival successes hatchlings, was gathered. To accomplish this work, search Web Science, Science Direct, NCBI/PubMed, Google Scholar carried out using terms “sea + change”. Published articles period were selected, related ecology 5 species turtles: Caretta caretta, Eretmochelys imbricata, Dermochelys coriacea, Chelonia mydas, Lepidochelys olivacea. Emphasis also placed geographical population location (e.g. climatic conditions during season). These (N = 126) analysed giving relevance researcher’s data interpretations, comparisons with researches, reached conclusions. An attempt made represent all when selecting each nesting: temperature, humidity, substrate, gases, depth nest, surface (SST), nest beach, phenology geographic distribution habitats. interaction between parameters their consequences terrestrial phase reproduction are presented discussed.