Lamont et al., 2020), perhaps because variation in sand temperatures at nesting depth among beaches very likely exceeds the magnitude of warming anticipated by 2100, even under RCP8.5  . As expected for a taxon with a long evolutionary history, turtles display natural adaptation, not only by virtue of broad geographic distributions that include natural climate-change refugia , but also because some initial responses to warming might counteract anticipated impacts. For example, although feminisation poses a significant long-term risk to turtle populations , it might contribute to population growth in the near to mid-term  . Resilience to climate change might be further enhanced by range extensions, alterations in nesting phenology and fine-scale nest-site selection  .
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