Mellowing with age: Older parents are less responsive to a stressor in a long-lived seabird

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1037-1044

  Heidinger, Britt J ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^b   Nisbet, Ian C T ^c   Ketterson, Ellen D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ICT Nisbet and Company   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common tern (Sterna hirundo); Corticosterone; Incubation; Life history; Parental care; Prolactin; Reproductive success; Stress response

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; AGING; BLOOD; BREEDING POPULATION; CAPTURE METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HORMONE; INHIBITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD;

AVES; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 78149343575     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01733.x     Document Type: Article

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