What is environmental stress? Insights from fish living in a variable environment

PM Schulte - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014‏ - journals.biologists.com
Although the term environmental stress is used across multiple fields in biology, the inherent
ambiguity associated with its definition has caused confusion when attempting to …

The next step for stress research in primates: To identify relationships between glucocorticoid secretion and fitness

JC Beehner, TJ Bergman - Hormones and Behavior, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Glucocorticoids are hormones that mediate the energetic demands that accompany
environmental challenges. It is therefore not surprising that these metabolic hormones have …

Chronic captivity stress in wild animals is highly species-specific

CP Fischer, LM Romero - Conservation physiology, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Wild animals are brought into captivity for many reasons—conservation, research,
agriculture and the exotic pet trade. While the physical needs of animals are met in captivity …

The social transmission of stress in animal collectives

HB Brandl, JC Pruessner… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The stress systems are powerful mediators between the organism's systemic dynamic
equilibrium and changes in its environment beyond the level of anticipated fluctuations. Over …

Biology of stress

EJ Gangloff, N Greenberg - Health and welfare of captive reptiles, 2023‏ - Springer
The concept of stress is notoriously difficult to define, despite its ubiquity in both common
parlance and the scientific literature. Given the clear importance of understanding how …

Reviewing the effects of food provisioning on wildlife immunity

T Strandin, SA Babayan… - … Transactions of the …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
While urban expansion increasingly encroaches on natural habitats, many wildlife species
capitalize on anthropogenic food resources, which have the potential to both positively and …

Glucocorticoid exposure predicts survival in female baboons

FA Campos, EA Archie, LR Gesquiere, J Tung… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Are differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation across the adult life
span linked to differences in survival? This question has been the subject of considerable …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of urban life on animal immunity: Adaptations and constraints

P Minias - Science of the Total Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Land transformation, including urbanization, is a dominant form of anthropogenic change to
the global environment at the dawn of the Anthropocene epoch. More and more species are …

Evolution of heterophil/lymphocyte ratios in response to ecological and life‐history traits: A comparative analysis across the avian tree of life

P Minias - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Lymphocytes and heterophils are the two most abundant leucocyte types, which play a
major role in adaptive and innate immune defence, respectively. The ratio of heterophils to …

Pumpkin seed oil–supplemented diets promoted the growth productivity, antioxidative capacity, and immune response in heat-stressed growing rabbits

SA Abdelnour, MGE Metwally, LB Bahgat… - Tropical Animal Health …, 2023‏ - Springer
Heat stress is the most major environmental element contributing to rabbit health problems
and reduced production. It is proposed that essential oils be applied to alleviate heat stress …