When stimuli from the environment are perceived to be a threat or potential threat then
animals initiate stress responses, with activation of the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis …

Anthropogenic change has well-documented impacts on stress physiology and behavior
across diverse taxonomic groups. Within individual organisms, physiological and behavioral …

While biomedical researchers have long appreciated the influence of maternally derived
glucocorticoids (GCs) on offspring phenotype, ecologists have only recently begun exploring …

Catalpol, a major compound in Rehmannia glutinosa with both medicinal and nutritional
values, has been previously confirmed to shorten the duration of immobility in mice exposed …

Endocrinologists can make significant contributions to conservation biology by hel** to
understand the mechanisms by which organisms cope with changing environments. Field …

Highlights•We examine the role of behaviour in the establishment of novel
traits.•Behavioural plasticity can accommodate a new morphological variant and allow novel …

Abstract The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) and the Socio-
Economic Impact Classification of Alien Taxa (SEICAT) have been proposed to provide …

Invasive alien species can cause extinction of native species through processes including
predation, interspecific competition for resources or disease‐mediated competition …

There is growing interest in the use of glucocorticoid (GC) hormones to understand how wild
animals respond to environmental challenges. Blood is the best medium for obtaining …

In the last decades, it is growing the idea that stress-induced immunomodulation is bimodal:
with acute stress associated with enhancing effects while chronic stress with suppressive …