The effect of extreme spring weather on body condition and stress physiology in Lapland longspurs and white-crowned sparrows breeding in the Arctic

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 237, Issue , 2016, Pages 10-18

  Krause, Jesse S ^a   Pérez, Jonathan H ^a   Chmura, Helen E ^a   Sweet, Shannan K ^b   Meddle, Simone L ^c   Hunt, Kathleen E ^d   Gough, Laura ^e   Boelman, Natalie ^b   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM   (United States)

^e TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Corticosterone; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; Life history trade offs

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; SNOW;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; BREEDING; CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HEMATOCRIT; LIPID STORAGE; NONHUMAN; PASSERIFORMES; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNOW COVER; SPRING; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS; ALASKA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPARROW; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SEASONS; SNOW; SPARROWS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 84982843314     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.07.015     Document Type: Article

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