Use of fecal glucocorticoid metabolite measures in conservation biology research: considerations for application and interpretation

JJ Millspaugh, BE Washburn - General and comparative endocrinology, 2004 - Elsevier
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite analyses are increasingly being used by a variety of
scientists (eg, conservation biologists, animal scientists) to examine glucocorticoid (ie, stress …

On the use of non‐invasive hormone research in uncontrolled, natural environments: the problem with sex, diet, metabolic rate and the individual

W Goymann - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Methods to measure metabolites of steroid hormones from faeces have become very
popular in wildlife conservation and ecology, because they allow gathering physiological …

A generalized fecal glucocorticoid assay for use in a diverse array of nondomestic mammalian and avian species

SK Wasser, KE Hunt, JL Brown, K Cooper… - General and …, 2000 - Elsevier
Noninvasive fecal glucocorticoid analysis has tremendous potential as a means of
assessing stress associated with environmental disturbance in wildlife. However …

[图书][B] Noninvasive survey methods for carnivores

RA Long, P MacKay, J Ray, W Zielinski - 2012 - books.google.com
The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and
conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance …

Faecal steroid analysis for non-invasive monitoring of reproductive status in farm, wild and zoo animals

F Schwarzenberger, E Möstl, R Palme… - Animal Reproduction …, 1996 - Elsevier
Non-invasive faecal oestrogen and progesterone metabolite evaluations are well
established approaches for monitoring reproductive function in a variety of mammalian …

Detection and occurrence of chlorinated byproducts of bisphenol A, nonylphenol, and estrogens in drinking water of China: comparison to the parent compounds

Z Fan, J Hu, W An, M Yang - Environmental science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
This study applied a sensitive dansylation LC-MS/MS method to the investigation on the
occurrence of bisphenol A (BPA), nonylphenol (NP), estrogens (E1 and E2), and their 11 …

Scat detection dogs in wildlife research and management: application to grizzly and black bears in the Yellowhead Ecosystem, Alberta, Canada

SK Wasser, B Davenport, ER Ramage… - Canadian Journal of …, 2004 - cdnsciencepub.com
We report the development and application of a method using domestic dogs (Canis
familiaris Linnaeus, 1758) to systematically locate wildlife scat over large remote areas …

Noninvasive physiological measures of disturbance in the northern spotted owl

SK Wasser, K Bevis, G King, E Hanson - Conservation biology, 1997 - JSTOR
The Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) continues to decline across its entire
range at a rate exceeding 4% per year, with a 1% annual acceleration (Burnham et al …

Noninvasive stress and reproductive measures of social and ecological pressures in free‐ranging African elephants

CAH Foley, S Papageorge, SK Wasser - Conservation Biology, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) experienced a poaching‐related 60% population
decline between 1979 and 1988 that was inordinately concentrated on adults. This, coupled …

Techniques for application of faecal DNA methods to field studies of Ursids

SK Wasser, CS Houston, GM Koehler… - Molecular …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We describe methods for the preservation, extraction and amplification of DNA from faeces
that facilitate field applications of faecal DNA technology. Mitochondrial, protein encoding …