Latest News Latest News

Content with tag sex ratio .

Egyptian vultures breed more males in the Canary Islands than on the Iberian Peninsula

For this research, more than 1600 Egyptian vulture nestlings from island and mainland populations were monitored over three decades in Spain. Small changes in the sex ratio in threatened species...

Effects of climate change on sea turtles nesting

Sea turtles are vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination. Rising temperatures due to climate change cause female-biased sex ratios. Here, the influence of nest depth and shading...

Sex ratio adjustments of the glossy ibis

The sex ratio is an important parameter affecting population demographics. This is a study of the mechanisms and causes of changes over time in the sex ratio of the glossy ibis (Plegadis...