Captive housing during water vole (Arvicola terrestris) reintroduction: Does short-term social stress impact on animal welfare?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Gelling, Merryl ^a   Montes, Iñigo ^a   Moorhouse, Tom P ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79952117181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009791     Document Type: Article

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