New colonisers drive the increase of the emerging loggerhead turtle nesting in Western Mediterranean

New colonisers drive the increase of the emerging loggerhead turtle nesting in Western Mediterranean

Abstract The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is sensitive to climate change and is responding by colonising the Western Mediterranean. To understand the rapid nesting increase in recent years in Spain, we sampled 45 hatchlings from 8 nests between 2016 and 2019. We sequenced a mtDNA D‐loop r...

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Main Authors: Astrid Luna-Ortiz, Gisela Marín-Capuz, Elena Abella, José Luis Crespo-Picazo, Fernando Escribano, Guillem Félix, Silvia Giralt, Jesús Tomás, Cinta Pegueroles, Marta Pascual, Carlos Carreras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51664-w

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51664-w

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