Disturbance of wildlife by outdoor winter recreation: Allostatic stress response and altered activity-energy budgets

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1197-1212

  Arlettaz, Raphaël ^a,b,c   Nusslé, Sebastién ^a,d   Baltic, Marjana ^a   Vogel, Peter ^e   Palme, Rupert ^f   Jenni Eiermann, Susanne ^b   Patthey, Patrick ^a   Genoud, Michel ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine ecosystems; Birds; Black Grouse; Corticosterone metabolites; Energy allocation modelling; Noninvasive stress monitoring; Tetrao tetrix; Tourism; Winter recreation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENDOGENOUS CUE; ENERGY BUDGET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HORMONE; METABOLITE; NATURE CONSERVATION; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; REFUGE;

AVES; TETRAO TETRIX;

ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GALLIFORMES; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECREATION; SEASON; TIME;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GALLIFORMES; HUMANS; RECREATION; SEASONS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84938402184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1141.1     Document Type: Article

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