Database of TSD information for marine turtles

Description

Database of TSD information for turtles
The columns are:
* Species: Name de the species in binominal nommenclature
* Country: From which country the eggs come from
* Area: Name of the beach or region the eggs come from
* RMU: For marine turtles, name of the RMU for this population; see Wallace, B.P., DiMatteo, A.D., Hurley, B.J., Finkbeiner, E.M., Bolten, A.B., Chaloupka, M.Y., Hutchinson, B.J., Abreu-Grobois, F.A., Amorocho, D., Bjorndal, K.A., Bourjea, J., Bowen, B.W., Duenas, R.B., Casale, P., Choudhury, B.C., Costa, A., Dutton, P.H., Fallabrino, A., Girard, A., Girondot, M., Godfrey, M.H., Hamann, M., Lopez-Mendilaharsu, M., Marcovaldi, M.A., Mortimer, J.A., Musick, J.A., Nel, R., Seminoff, J.A., Troeng, S., Witherington, B., Mast, R.B., 2010. Regional management units for marine turtles: a novel framework for prioritizing conservation and research across multiple scales. Plos One 5, e15465.
* Incubation.temperature: Nominal incubation temperature
* Fluctuation: How much the temperature could fluctuate around nominal temperature
* Precision: What is the precision of the measure of temperature
* Correction.factor: Difference between the incubator temperature and the eggs temperature
* IP.min: Shorter incubation period
* IP.max: Longer incubation period
* IP.amplitude: IP.max-IP.min if available
* IP.mean: Mean incubation periods
* IP.mode: Mode for incubation periods
* IP.SE: Standard error for incubation periods
* IP.SD: Standard deviation for incubation periods
* IP.pm: If incubation period are indicated with a plus-minus term with no more precision
* Total: Total number of eggs incubated
* Hatched: Number of hatchlings
* Intersexes: Number of individuals intersexes or ambiguous for sex phenotype
* Males: Number of individuals indentified as males
* Females: Number of individuals indentified as females
* Sexed: Number of sexed individuals
* Clutch: Identity of clutch
* Reference: Bibliographic reference
* Note: Diverse information for this incubation
* Version: Date of the version of this database

Usage

STSRE_TSD

Format

A dataframe with raw data.

Details

Database of TSD information for marine turtles

Author(s)

Marc Girondot marc.girondot@u-psud.fr

Maria Sousa Martins maria.esmartins@gmail.com

References

Binckley C.A., Spotila J.R., Wilson K.S. and Paladino F.V. (1998) Sex determination and sex ratios of Pacific Leatherback Turtles, Dermochelys coriacea. Copeia, 1998(2), 291-300.

Crastz F. (1982) Embryological stages of the marine turtle Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz). Rev. Biol. Trop., 30, 113-120.

De Souza, R.R., Vogt, R.C., 1994. Incubation temperature influences sex and hatchling size in the neotropical turtle Podocnemis unifilis. Journal of Herpetology 28, 453-464.

Girondot M. 1999 Statistical description of temperature-dependent sex determination using maximum likelihood. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 1(3), 479-486.

Gutzke, W. H. N., & Paukstis, G. L. (1983). Influence of the hydric environment on sexual differentiation in turtles. J. Exp. Zool., 226, 467-469. [Chrysemys picta]

Hewavisenthi, S. (1999) Influence of incubation environment on the development of the flatback turtle (Natator depressus). Ph.D. Thesis, Central Queensland University.

Hewavisenthi, S. & Parmenter, C.J. (2000) Hydric environment and sex determination in the flatback turtle (Natator depressus Garman) (Chelonia : Cheloniidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 48, 653-659.

Hulin, V., Delmas, V., Girondot, M., Godfrey, M. H. and Guillon, J.-M. 2009. Temperature-dependent sex determination and global change: are some species at greater risk? Oecologia, 160, 493-506.

Limpus C.J., Reed P.C. and Miller J.D. (1985) Temperature dependent sex determination in Queensland sea turtles: Intraspecific variation in Caretta caretta. In Grigg G., Shine R. and Ehmann H. (eds) Biology of Australian frogs and reptiles. New South Wales, Australia: Royal Zoological Society, pp 343-351.

Lopez Correa, J.Y., 2010. Diferenciacion gonadica en crias de Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) (Testudinata: Cheloniidae), Instituto Politicnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinaria de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, BCS, p. 108.

Marcovaldi M.A., Godfrey M.H. and Mrosovsky N. (1997) Estimating sex ratios of loggerhead turtles in Brazil from pivotal incubation temperatures. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, 75, 755-770.

McCoy C.J., Vogt R.C. and Censky E.J. (1983) Temperature-controlled sex determination in the sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea. J. Herpetol., 17(4), 404-406.

Merchant-Larios, H, Diaz-Hernandez, V, Marmolejo-Valencia A. 2010. Gonadal morphogenesis and gene expression in reptiles with temperature-dependent sex determination. Sexual Development 4:50-61.

Merchant-Larios, H., Villalpando-Fierro, I. & Centeno-Urruiza, B. 1989. Gonadal morphogenesis under controlled temperature in the sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea. Herpetol. Monographs, 3, 43-61.

Merchant-Larios, H., Ruiz-Ramirez, S., Moreno-Mendoza, N. & Marmolejo-Valencia, A. 1997. Correlation among thermosensitive period, estradiol response, and gonad differentiation in the sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 107, 373-385.

Michel-Morfinu J.E., Gomez Munoz V.M. and Navarro Rodriguez C. (2001) Morphometric model for sex assessment in hatchling olive ridley sea turtles. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 40(1), 53-58.

Mrosovsky N., Kamel S., Rees A.F. and Margaritoulis D. (2002) Pivotal temperature for loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) from Kyparissia Bay, Greece. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, 80(12), 2118-2124.

Mrosovsky N., Dutton P.H. and Whitmore C.P. (1984) Sex ratios of two species of sea turtle nesting in Suriname. Can. J. Zool., 62, 2227-2239.

Mrosovsky N., Bass A., Corliss L.A., Richardson J.I. and Richardson T.H. (1992) Pivotal and beach temperature for hawksbill turtles nesting in Antigua. Can. J. Zool., 70, 1920-1925.

Rimblot F., Fretey J., Mrosovsky N., Lescure J. and Pieau C. (1985) Sexual differentiation as a function of the incubation temperature of eggs in the sea-turtle Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761). Amphibia-Reptilia, 85(6), 83-92.

Rimblot-Baly F., Lescure J., Fretey J. and Pieau C. (1986-1987) Sensibilite a la temperature de la differenciation sexuelle chez la tortue Luth, Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761); application des donnees de l'incubation artificielle a l'etude de la sex-ratio dans la nature. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, 8, 277-290.

Ruiz Garcia N.A. (2014) Efectos de la temperatura sobre el desarrollo embrionario y el desempero de crias de la tortuga golfina, Lepidochelys olivacea. Tesis Nivel Maestria.

Valenzuela, N., 2001. Constant, shift, and natural temperature effects on sex determination in Podocnemis expansa. Ecology 82, 3010-3024.

Tokunaga, S., Iwakiri, Y., Nakajima, Y., (1999). Temperature-dependent sex determination of a sea turtle, Caretta caretta, from Miyazaki,Japan. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 18, 147-156.

Wibbels T., Rostal D.C. and Byles R. (1998) High pivotal temperature in the sex determination of the olive ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys olivacea, from Playa Nancite, Costa Rica. Copeia, 1998(4), 1086-1088.

Yntema C.L. and Mrosovsky N. (1980) Sexual differentiation in hatchling loggerheads (Caretta caretta) incubated at different controlled temperatures. Herpetologica, 36(1), 33-36.

Yntema C.L. and Mrosovsky N. (1982) Critical periods and pivotal temperatures for sexual differentiation in loggerhead sea turtles. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, 60(5), 1012-1016.

See Also

Other Functions.for.temperature.dependent.sex.determination: TSP.list, predict.tsd, stages, tsd_MHmcmc_p, tsd_MHmcmc, tsd

Examples

## Not run: 
library(embryogrowth)
data(STSRE_TSD)
STSRE_TSD$Version[1]
totalIncubation_Lo <- subset(STSRE_TSD, Species=="Lepidochelys olivacea" & Sexed!=0)
tot_Lo <- with(totalIncubation_Lo, tsd(males=Males, females=Females, 
 temperatures=Incubation.temperature, par=c(P=29, S=-0.01), xlim=c(25, 35)))
 predict(tot_Lo)

## End(Not run)

Results