Developmental stress and social phenotypes: integrating neuroendocrine, behavioural and evolutionary perspectives

KA Spencer - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The social world is filled with different types of interactions, and social experience interacts
with stress on several different levels. Activation of the neuroendocrine axis that regulates …

Physiological stress as a fundamental mechanism linking predation to ecosystem functioning

D Hawlena, OJ Schmitz - The American Naturalist, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
We present a framework to explain how prey stress responses to predation can resolve
context dependency in ecosystem properties and functions such as food chain length …

The relationship between fitness and baseline glucocorticoids in a passerine bird

F Bonier, IT Moore, PR Martin, RJ Robertson - General and comparative …, 2009 - Elsevier
Glucocorticoid (cort) hormones are increasingly applied in studies of free-ranging animals,
with elevated baseline cort levels generally assumed to indicate individuals or populations …

The interaction of parasites and resources cause crashes in a wild mouse population

AB Pedersen, TJ Greives - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Populations of white‐footed mice Peromyscus leucopus and deer mice
Peromyscus maniculatus increase dramatically in response to food availability from oak …

Experimental Chronic Noise Is Related to Elevated Fecal Corticosteroid Metabolites in Lekking Male Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)

JL Blickley, KR Word, AH Krakauer, JL Phillips… - PLoS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
There is increasing evidence that individuals in many species avoid areas exposed to
chronic anthropogenic noise, but the impact of noise on those who remain in these habitats …

The relationship between physiological stress and wildlife disease: consequences for health and conservation

S Hing, EJ Narayan, RCA Thompson… - Wildlife …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Wildlife populations are under increasing pressure from a variety of threatening processes,
ranging from climate change to habitat loss, that can incite a physiological stress response …

Larval competition differentially affects arbovirus infection in Aedes mosquitoes

BW Alto, LP Lounibos, S Higgs, SA Juliano - Ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Both density‐mediated and trait‐mediated indirect biotic interactions may be important in
structuring communities. Indirect interactions in many study systems remain unexplored; in …

Sex-specific consequences of life in the city

F Bonier, PR Martin, KS Sheldon, JP Jensen… - Behavioral …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The vast majority of species are excluded from human-dominated landscapes, but some
species persist and appear to thrive, despite facing challenges they would not encounter in …

Interspecific variation in avian blood parasites and haematology associated with urbanization in a desert habitat

H Bobby Fokidis, EC Greiner… - Journal of Avian …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Many avian species are negatively impacted by urbanization, but other species survive and
prosper in urbanized areas. One factor potentially contributing to the success of some …

Increased pre‐natal maternal corticosterone promotes philopatry of offspring in common lizards Lacerta vivipara

M De Fraipont, J Clobert, H John… - Journal of Animal …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing evidence that dispersal is highly phenotypically plastic, ie that dispersal is
condition‐dependent. In the common lizard, dispersal has even been shown to be …