Measuring animal welfare within a reintroduction: An assessment of different indices of stress in water voles Arvicola amphibius

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Gelling, Merryl ^a   Johnson, Paul J ^a   Moorhouse, Tom P ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ARVICOLA AMPHIBIUS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDRATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SPECIES REINTRODUCTION; STRESS; VOLE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BREEDING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; WATER;

ANIMALIA; ARVICOLA; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MURIDAE;

EID: 84864011877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041081     Document Type: Article

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