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A Method for Assessing the Vulnerability of Sea Turtles to a Changing Climate
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2020
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Description:The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), together with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), have mandates to protect and recover sea turtle species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Climate change and environmental variability are key stressors affecting sea turtle conservation. Sea turtle populations are expected to respond to climate change and environmental variability in a variety of ways that may manifest as shifts in distribution, population structure, abundance, and/or phenology. However, there is a lack of specific information on climate-related impacts for many populations, and there are few methods specifically designed to assess the vulnerability of sea turtle populations. Vulnerability assessments can help provide that climate-related information, and the NMFS Climate Science Strategy and Regional Action Plans recommend conducting vulnerability assessments for living marine resources, including sea turtles. Therefore NMFS, with input from USFWS, developed a method to simultaneously assess the climate vulnerability of multiple sea turtle populations to help fill critical information gaps and identify candidate populations for targeted climate-related research.
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