Urban landscapes are associated with abiotic and biotic environmental changes that may
result in potential stressors for wild vertebrates. Urban exploiters have physiological …

Glucocorticoids are pleiotropic steroid hormones mediating redistribution of energy. They
induce breakdown of glycogen stores and consequent plasma hyperglycaemia after …

Urbanization changes the landscape structure and ecological processes of natural habitats.
While urban areas expose animal communities to novel challenges, they may also provide …

Understanding at which spatial scales anthropogenic selection pressures operate most
strongly is a prerequisite for efficient conservation and management of urban biodiversity …

Although the consequences of urbanization for the physiological health of animals are the
focus of much active research, an overlooked aspect is how physiology could be indirectly …

Feathers gradually accumulate hormones and reflect long-term average plasma steroid
levels during their growth. Feather hormone levels thus provide for the measurement of …

In the last decade, house sparrow populations have shown a general decline, especially in
cities. Avian malaria has been recently suggested as one of the potential causes of this …

The pace‐of‐life hypothesis predicts no impact of urbanization on stress responses.
Accordingly, several studies have been inconsistent in showing differences in breath rate …

The endangered loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) are a relatively abundant sea turtle
species in Madeiran waters, where they encounter various environmental stressors: from …

Human-induced changes to the environment represent a new set of selective pressures on
wildlife that have the potential to affect their physiology (eg, endocrine system, immune …