Assessing the impact of live-capture, confinement, and translocation on stress and fate in eastern gray squirrels

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1401-1411

  Bosson, Curtis O ^a   Palme, Rupert ^b   Boonstra, Rudy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

cortisol; ecophysiology; glucocorticoids; gray squirrel; invasive species; noninvasive technique; relocation; Sciurus carolinensis; urban habitat

Indexed keywords

ECOPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOASSAY; INVASIVE SPECIES; RADIOTELEMETRY; RELOCATION; RODENT; TRANSLOCATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84890905704     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-046.1     Document Type: Article

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