Stress responses play a key role in allowing animals to cope with change and challenge in
the face of both environmental certainty and uncertainty. Measurement of glucocorticoid …

Anthropogenic noise is a pervasive pollutant that decreases environmental quality by
disrupting a suite of behaviors vital to perception and communication. However, even within …

Given the connection between chronic stress and health, there has been a growing
emphasis on identifying chronically stressed wild animals, especially in relation to …

Baseline glucocorticoid (cort) levels are increasingly employed as physiological indices of
the relative condition or health of individuals and populations. Often, high cort levels are …

All organisms must adjust morphology, physiology and behavior as they go about their life
cycles. For vertebrates, including humans, these adjustments occur as daily routines and in …

Urban development can alter resource availability, land use, and community composition,
which, in turn, influences wildlife health. Generalizable relationships between wildlife health …

As the number and diversity of animal species meriting conservation intervention increases,
improving the success of translocation efforts is vital and understanding the role of …

Prey responses to high predation risk can be morphological or behavioural and ultimately
come at the cost of survival, growth, body condition, or reproduction. These sub‐lethal …

Over the past few decades, there has been a steep increase in the number of conservation-
related field studies that measure glucocorticoid hormones (corticosterone or cortisol) as a …

Incubation is a vital component of reproduction and parental care in birds. Maintaining
temperatures within a narrow range is necessary for embryonic development and hatching …