Sampling effort/frequency necessary to infer individual acute stress responses from fecal analysis in greylag geese (Anser anser)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1046, Issue , 2005, Pages 154-167

  Scheiber, Isabella B R ^a   Kralj, Simona ^b   Kotrschal, Kurt ^a  

^a Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle Für Ethologie   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Anser anser; Corticosterone immunoreactive metabolites; Grey lag goose; Individual variation; Noninvasive sampling; Sampling effort; Short term stress response

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANSER ANSER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GOOSE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE METABOLISM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STRESS;

ANSER; ANSER ANSER; ANSER SP.;

EID: 23744507264     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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