Stress hormones in relation to breeding status and territory location in colonial king penguin: A role for social density?

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 763-772

  Viblanc, Vincent A ^a,b,c   Gineste, Benoit ^a,b   Stier, Antoine ^a,b   Robin, Jean Patrice ^a,b   Groscolas, René ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Coloniality; Corticosterone; Crowding; Glucocorticoids; Oxidative stress; Population density; Seabird; Stress; Territory location

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; FITNESS; GROWTH REGULATOR; LIFE HISTORY; PERIPHERAL REGION; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SEABIRD; TERRITORY;

APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; AVES; SPHENISCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREEDING; CLIMATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CLIMATE; CORTICOSTERONE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPHENISCIDAE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84902793128     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2942-6     Document Type: Article

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