Employing individual measures of baseline glucocorticoids as population-level conservation biomarkers: considering within-individual variation in a breeding passerine

We outline the importance of considering within-individual changes in physiology when determining how disturbances may impact wildlife. Our results indicate that stress hormones measured on a subset of individuals may not provide a clear picture of how entire populations could respond to environmental change; multiple measures from the same individuals over time may be necessary.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Conservation Physiology

• Publication date

  2016-10-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/conphys/cow048PMID 27757239PMCID 5066389
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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