Somatic growth is an integrated, individual-based response to environmental conditions, especially in ectotherms. Growth dynamics of large, mobile animals are particularly useful as bio-indicators of environmental change at regional scales. We assembled growth rate data from throughout the West Atlantic for green turtles, Chelonia mydas, which are long-lived, highly migratory, primarily herbivo...

Marine debris is a growing problem for wildlife, and has been documented to affect more than 267 species worldwide. We investigated the prevalence of marine debris ingestion in 115 sea turtles stranded in Queensland between 2006-2011, and assessed how the ingestion rates differ between species (Eretmochelys imbricata vs. Chelonia mydas) and by turtle size class (smaller oceanic feeders vs. larg...

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...

Knowledge of demographic processes and life history strategies is necessary for the conservation management endangered sea turtle populations, but it difficult to ascertain because limited accessibility marine environments that turtles use during different stages their cycle. In such cases, molecular genetics genomic approaches are useful assess mating systems operational sex ratios (OSR), whic...