Understanding the geographic distribution of genetic diversity of imperiled species across all life history stages, and identifying the factors that shape those distributions, are key to maintaining long-term genetic diversity and the health of populations. This knowledge is particularly important for highly mobile marine organisms, whose extensive movements can obscure patterns of population structure. We substantially expand...

Marine turtles exhibit temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), and there is widespread concern that global warming is raising nest incubation temperatures, resulting in increasingly female-skewed sex ratios in “feminized” populations. We assessed the sex ratio of a mixed-stock aggregation of immature green turtles ( Chelonia mydas ) at a midocean developmental foraging ground in the Northwest Atlantic from 1975 to 2018....

Somatic growth is an integrated, individual‐based response to environmental conditions, especially in ectotherms. Growth dynamics of large, mobile animals are particularly useful as bio‐indicators of environmental change at regional scales. We assembled growth rate data from throughout the West Atlantic for green turtles, Chelonia mydas , which are long‐lived, highly migratory, primarily herbivorous mega‐consumers that may mig...

The hawksbill turtle ( Eretmochelys imbricata ), listed since 1996 by the IUCN as Critically Endangered and by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as an Appendix I species, has been the subject of attention and controversy during the past 10 years due to the efforts of some nations to re‐open banned international trade. The most recent debate has centred on whether it is appropriate for Cuba to...