Coping with anthropogenic environmental change is among the greatest challenges faced
by wildlife, and endocrine flexibility is a potentially crucial coping mechanism. Animals may …

Urban environments are evolutionarily novel and differ from natural environments in many
respects including food and/or water availability, predation, noise, light, air quality …

The effect of the social environment on individual state or condition has largely focused on
glucocorticoid levels (GCs). As metabolic hormones whose production can be influenced by …

Oil extraction may impact wildlife by altering habitat suitability and affecting stress levels and
behavior of individuals, but it can be challenging to disentangle the impacts of infrastructure …

The use of drones to census nesting seabirds is well established, but far less is known about
the possibility of using them for the estimation of reproductive success. In particular, very few …

Urbanization constitutes one of the major transformations of natural habitats, creating new
areas characterized by multiple potential wildlife stressors. Birds that live in highly …

Urban environments alter various physiological responses of sympatric animals. In this
chapter, we provide an overview of stress physiology and the responses of bats to different …

Animals in the wild are faced with making decisions every day that can impact their
reproductive fitness and survival. Obviously successful reproduction and maintenance of …

The stress response has been defined as an organism's behavioural or physiological
reactions to a variety of external stressors (eg pesticide levels, handling, captivity, predation …

Urban areas are characterised by the presence of sensory pollutants, such as
anthropogenic noise and artificial light at night (ALAN). Animals can quickly adapt to novel …