Sentence examples for sand temperature from inspiring English sources

According to the new research, tiny sand temperature increases or decreases within a couple of degrees can have a drastic effect on turtle hatchling populations.

A more localized effect on gender skewing comes from the construction of tall buildings, which reduce sun exposure, lowering the average sand temperature, which results in a shift in gender ratios to favor the emergence of male turtles.

One-month old larvae were then changed to a 50 l aquarium with sand (temperature ranged between 10°C in winter to 21°C in summer) and with the same feeding conditions.

Nest temperature is determined by a combination of sand temperature and metabolic heating produced by developing embryos (Broderick et al., 2001; Booth and Freeman, 2006).

Metabolic heat can raise the nest temperature to 2 6°C above sand temperature in the final weeks of incubation (Broderick et al., 2001; van de Merwe et al., 2006; Zbinden et al., 2006).

High sand temperatures may skew gender ratios in favor of females.

That study was conducted in Indonesia, which is a tropical environment, and accordingly has high sand temperatures and high rainfall (Maulany et al., 2012b).

Critical thermal maxima for other sea turtle species have been measured at between 37.1°C and 41.4°C (Drake and Spotila, 2002), which is higher than the sand temperatures measured in this study, however hatchlings began to display uncoordinated movements at 33.4°C (Drake and Spotila, 2002).