Lifetime variation in feather corticosterone levels in a long-lived raptor

Oecologia

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 315-326

  López Jiménez, Lidia ^a   Blas, Julio ^a   Tanferna, Alessandro ^a   Cabezas, Sonia ^b   Marchant, Tracy ^b   Hiraldo, Fernando ^a   Sergio, Fabrizio ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adrenocortical responses; Age; Allostatic load; Milvus migrans; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; FEATHER; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RAPTOR; SENESCENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MILVUS; MILVUS MIGRANS; RAPTORES; VERTEBRATA;

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; BIRD; FEATHER; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEATHERS; RAPTORS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84983766442     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3708-0     Document Type: Article

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