Australian scientists say the animals unlikely to be able to change nesting behaviour enough to mitigate temperature rises
found that females accounted for 99.1% of juvenile turtles originating from nesting beaches in the north of the reef.
“There’s lots of good news going on around the world with sea turtles,” he said. “In a number of sites around the world, populations are going up; conservation is working really successfully. Sea turtles tend to nest in the area they hatched from, a behaviour known as natal philopatry. It means, the researchers suggest, that they “cannot readily change their range to accommodate warming temperatures”., used a projected 1.5C increase in sea temperatures, “as this warming is very likely to happen before the end of the century”.
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