Habitat disturbance results in chronic stress and impaired health status in forest-dwelling paleotropical bats

Encroachment of humans into pristine habitats is a major threat to biodiversity. We found that some paleotropical bat species from disturbed forests suffered from chronic stress and an impaired immune system, suggesting that allostatic overload may play a pivotal role in the extinction of wildlife species.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Conservation Physiology

• Publication date

  2017-04-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/conphys/cox020PMID 28421138PMCID 5388297
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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