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Noninvasive measures of physiological stress are confounded by exposure

Glucocorticoids and glucocorticoid metabolites are increasingly used to index physiological stress in wildlife. Although feces is often abundant and can be collected noninvasively, exposure to biotic and abiotic elements may influence fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) concentrations, leading to...

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Autores principales: Lafferty, Diana J. R., Zimova, Marketa, Clontz, Lindsay, Hackländer, Klaus, Mills, L. Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6915565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31844125
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55715-5