Traffic noise causes physiological stress and impairs breeding migration behaviour in frogs

Conservation Physiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tennessen, Jennifer B ^a   Parks, Susan E ^b   Langkilde, Tracy ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Frog; Mate attraction; Noise; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983520465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cou032     Document Type: Article

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