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 environment...

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Main Authors: Madliger, Christine L, Love, Oliver P
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066389/