The ecology of stress: Effects of the social environment

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-80

  Creel, Scott ^a   Dantzer, Ben ^b   Goymann, Wolfgang ^c   Rubenstein, Dustin R ^d  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostasis; Dominance; Glucocorticoid; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Social behaviour; Sociality; Stress; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MAMMAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION RISK; REPTILE; SECRETION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873091105     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02029.x     Document Type: Article

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