Forest management is associated with physiological stress in an old-growth forest passerine

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1518, 2003, Pages 963-969

  Suorsa, Petri ^a   Huhta, Esa ^a   Nikula, Ari ^b   Nikinmaa, Mikko ^a   Jäntti, Ari ^c   Helle, Heikki ^c   Hakkarainen, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Forest fragmentation; Offspring quality; Physiological stress; Treecreeper

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PASSERINE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREEDING; CERTHIA FAMILIARIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERTHIA FAMILIARIS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0038703650     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2326     Document Type: Article

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