Measuring corticosterone metabolites in droppings of capercaillies (Tetrao urogallus)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1046, Issue , 2005, Pages 96-108

  Thiel, Dominik ^a   Jenni Eiermann, Susanne ^a   Palme, Rupert ^b  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capercaillie; Conservation biology; Disturbance; Ecology; Field endocrinology; Noninvasive measurement

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID METABOLISM; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE METABOLISM; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; NONHUMAN; STEROID ANALYSIS; STRESS; TETRAO UROGALLUS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHASIANIDAE; TETRAO UROGALLUS;

EID: 23744504439     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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