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Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41751015/ |
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- Warming and Change in Ocean Productivity Alter Phenology of an Expanding Loggerhead Population in Cabo Verde. Nugraha, Fitra Arya Dwi Fairweather, Kirsten Lopes, Artur Lopes, Anice Renom, Berta Allgayer, Rebekka Taxonera, Albert Eizaguirre, Christophe Climate warming can alter reproductive timing of species, yet the capacity for phenological adjustment in long-lived species, particularly marine ones, remains elusive. Using 17 years of monitoring data from one of the largest loggerhead turtle () populations, we investigated the environmental drivers of reproductive phenology and output. We found that warmer sea surface temperatures (SST) in both the feeding ground and the nesting ground advanced the start, peak, and end of the nesting season. We provide evidence for waves of arrival at the nesting ground, suggesting more turtles produce fewer clutches than previously thought. Inter-nesting intervals were shorter during episodes of higher SST, particularly in larger females, likely underpinned by metabolic scaling variation in reproductive pacing. Conversely, remigration intervals lengthened over time in all size classes, reflecting the detected continuous decrease in productivity in the feeding ground. As a result of reduced ocean productivity, both clutch size and clutch frequency also declined over the study period. Moreover, the declining trend in body size further reduces reproductive output, as smaller females produce smaller clutch sizes. Overall, we show that sea turtle population dynamics correlate with environmental parameters. The sustained decline in reproductive output underscores the need to mitigate the impacts of climate warming on the foraging area to safeguard this population, which, given its size, holds global significance.