Factors related to fecal corticosterone levels in California Spotted Owls: Implications for assessing chronic stress

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 538-547

  Tempel, Douglas J ^a   Gutierrez R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

California Spotted Owl; Fecal corticosterone; Noninvasive; Sierra Nevada; Strix occidentalis occidentalis

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; SAMPLING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STRESS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AVES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS CAURINA; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 1842764834     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00372.x     Document Type: Article

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