Multiple measures elucidate glucocorticoid responses to environmental variation in predation threat

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 607-614

  Clinchy, Michael ^a   Zanette, Liana ^b   Charlier, Thierry D ^c   Newman, Amy E M ^d   Schmidt, Kim L ^d   Boonstra, Rudy ^e   Soma, Kiran K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid binding globulin; Free corticosterone; Indirect predator effects; Non consumptive effects; Predation risk

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TRANSCORTIN;

DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HORMONE; MAMMAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANADA; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SONGBIRDS; TRANSCORTIN;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

EID: 79958711698     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1915-2     Document Type: Article

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