Non-invasive assessment of the interrelationships of diet, pregnancy rate, group composition, and physiological and nutritional stress of barren-ground caribou in late winter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Joly, Kyle ^a   Wasser, Samuel K ^b   Booth, Rebecca ^b  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; LIOTHYRONINE; PROGESTERONE; HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARREN GROUND CARIBOU; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; COW; DIET; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; HABITAT QUALITY; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LATITUDE; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MALE; MICROHISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; REINDEER; SEX RATIO; WINTER; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FECES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; SEASON;

RANGIFER TARANDUS;

ANIMALS; DIET; FECES; FEMALE; HORMONES; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REINDEER; SEASONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84936854591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127586     Document Type: Article

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