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| Title |
Climate Driven Egg and Hatchling Mortality Threatens Survival of Eastern Pacific Leatherback Turtles
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0037602 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pilar Santidrián Tomillo, Vincent S. Saba, Gabriela S. Blanco, Charles A. Stock, Frank V. Paladino, James R. Spotila |
| Abstract |
Egg-burying reptiles need relatively stable temperature and humidity in the substrate surrounding their eggs for successful development and hatchling emergence. Here we show that egg and hatchling mortality of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in northwest Costa Rica were affected by climatic variability (precipitation and air temperature) driven by the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Drier and warmer conditions associated with El Niño increased egg and hatchling mortality. The fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects a warming and drying in Central America and other regions of the World, under the SRES A2 development scenario. Using projections from an ensemble of global climate models contributed to the IPCC report, we project that egg and hatchling survival will rapidly decline in the region over the next 100 years by ∼50-60%, due to warming and drying in northwestern Costa Rica, threatening the survival of leatherback turtles. Warming and drying trends may also threaten the survival of sea turtles in other areas affected by similar climate changes. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 29% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 193 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Uruguay | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 187 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 43 | 22% |
| Researcher | 34 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 28 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 10% |
| Other | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 21 | 11% |
| Unknown | 37 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 80 | 41% |
| Environmental Science | 42 | 22% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 14 | 7% |
| Unknown | 42 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 June 2015.
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#4,983
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#171
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