作者
Oliver P Love, Patrick O McGowan, Michael J Sheriff
发表日期
2013/2
期刊
Functional Ecology
卷号
27
期号
1
页码范围
81-92
简介
- Biomedical researchers have long appreciated that maternal stressors can induce preparative and adaptive programming in offspring via exposure to maternal Glucocorticoids (GCs). However, few ecologists are aware of the capacity for maternal GC exposure to translate ecological and environmental stressors into preparative and adaptive programmed offspring responses in free‐living systems. We review a growing body of experimental work indicating that circulating maternal GCs link ecological stressors with adaptive programming of the stress axis. Throughout, we emphasise that natural and human‐induced ecological stressors play a fundamental role in programming the capacity of individuals, populations and communities to respond to both predictable and unpredictable ecological change via translating maternal adversity into responsive programming of the vertebrate stress axis.
- To encourage rigorous …
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OP Love, PO McGowan, MJ Sheriff - Functional Ecology, 2013