Physiological stress levels predict survival probabilities in wild rabbits

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 313-320

  Cabezas, Sonia ^a   Blas, Julio ^b   Marchant, Tracy A ^b   Moreno, Sacramento ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body condition; Corticosterone; European wild rabbit; Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites; Non invasive monitoring; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Stress; Survival; Translocation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RABBIT; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY MASS INDEX; CORTICOSTERONE; FECES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; RABBITS; STRESS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847685975     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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