Experimental Chronic Noise Is Related to Elevated Fecal Corticosteroid Metabolites in Lekking Male Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Blickley, Jessica L ^a   Word, Karen R ^a   Krakauer, Alan H ^a   Phillips, Jennifer L ^a   Sells, Sarah N ^b   Taff, Conor C ^a   Wingfield, John C ^a   Patricelli, Gail L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; STRESS HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FECES LEVEL; HABITAT QUALITY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; METABOLITE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SAGE GROUSE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CORTICOSTERONE; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TAPE RECORDING;

AVES; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS;

EID: 84869797223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050462     Document Type: Article

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