Population, Behavioural and Physiological Responses of an Urban Population of Black Swans to an Intense Annual Noise Event

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Payne, Catherine J ^a   Jessop, Tim S ^a,b   Guay, Patrick Jean ^c   Johnstone, Michele ^a   Feore, Megan ^a   Mulder, Raoul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Wildlife Conservation and Science   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLACK SWAN; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FORAGING; HORMONE RESPONSE; LIFE EVENT; LOCOMOTION; MIGRATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; REST; SELF CARE; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; NOISE; POPULATION DENSITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; CYGNUS ATRATUS;

EID: 84866344102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045014     Document Type: Article

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