Florida Project
Incubation temperatures of loggerhead turtle (caretta caretta) nests On NW Florida Beaches
September 2010 - March 2012
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Participating Agencies
- Fish and Wildlife Service
The ratio of males to females in a population is an important feature of population structure. Sex ratio directly relates to reproductive rate and adaptive capability of a population (Ridley 1993) and is necessary for determining size, status, and dynamics of the population. For all species of sea turtles, basic knowledge of natural existing sex ratios has been missing until recently and is still not complete for most nesting groups. Sex determination of sea turtles is dependent upon the temperature at which the eggs are incubated (Yntema and Mrosovsky 1982).