Warming seas increase cold-stunning events for Kemp’s ridley sea turtles in the northwest Atlantic
Since the 1970s, the magnitude of turtle cold-stun strandings have increased dramatically within the northwestern Atlantic. Here, we examine oceanic, atmospheric, and biological factors that may affect the increasing trend of cold-stunned Kemp’s ridleys in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States...
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2019
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/nrs_facpubs/151 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211503 https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/context/nrs_facpubs/article/1152/viewcontent/Still_Brett.pdf |