All organisms have a stress response system to cope with environmental threats, yet its
precise form varies hugely within and across individuals, populations, and species. While …

The adrenocortical stress-response is extraordinarily conserved across mammals, birds,
fish, reptiles, and amphibians, suggesting that it has been present during the hundreds of …

Expansion of anthropogenic noise and night lighting across our planet, is of increasing
conservation concern,,–. Despite growing knowledge of physiological and behavioural …

The concept of stress is notoriously difficult to define, despite its ubiquity in both common
parlance and the scientific literature. Given the clear importance of understanding how …

Rates of human-induced environmental change continue increasing with human population
size, potentially altering animal physiology and negatively affecting wildlife. Researchers …

Global climate change has increased average environmental temperatures world-wide,
simultaneously intensifying temperature variability and extremes. Growing numbers of …

Global climate change is negatively impacting global biodiversity and ectothermic
vertebrates, with amphibians being the most imperiled vertebrate taxa. Increased mean …

There is growing interest in studying hormones beyond single 'snapshot'measurements, as
recognition that individual variation in the endocrine response to environmental change may …

Glucocorticoid hormones (GCs) are central mediators of metabolism and the response to
challenges. Because circulating GC levels increase in response to challenges, within …

Climate change is threatening biodiversity world-wide. One of its most prominent
manifestations are rising global temperatures and higher frequencies of heat waves. High …