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Assessing baseline stress physiology as an integrator of environmental quality in a wild avian population: Implications for use as a conservation biomarker

Christine L. Madliger, Auteur ; Christina A. D. Semeniuk, Auteur ; Christopher M. Harris, Auteur ; Oliver P. Love, Auteur

Dans Biological Conservation (192 DEC 2015)

Stress hormones (i.e., glucocorticoids such as corticosterone and cortisol) have been widely proposed as biomarkers of habitat quality and disturbance. However, there is growing evidence that baseline glucocorticoid (GC) levels are highly contex[...]

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