Sex, Diet, and the Social Environment: Factors Influencing Hair Cortisol Concentration in Free-Ranging Black Bears (Ursus americanus)

Increasingly, measures of glucocorticoid levels (e.g., cortisol), key components of the neuroendocrine stress axis, are being used to measure past hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity to index psychological and physiological stress exhibited by wildlife for assessing individual and populati...

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Autores principales: Lafferty, Diana J. R., Laudenslager, Mark L., Mowat, Garth, Heard, Doug, Belant, Jerrold L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26529405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141489

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26529405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141489

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