Weathering the storm: Do arctic blizzards cause repeatable changes in stress physiology and body condition in breeding songbirds?

•Stress physiology was analyzed in response to multi-day snowstorms in 5 years.•Baseline corticosterone was unaffected by snowstorms in all but two instances.•Stress-induced corticosterone were typically elevated during snowstorms.•Stress physiology was significantly different across a multiday stor...

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Published in:General and Comparative Endocrinology
Main Authors: Krause, Jesse S., Pérez, Jonathan H., Chmura, Helen E., Meddle, Simone L., Hunt, Kathleen E., Gough, Laura, Boelman, Natalie, Wingfield, John C.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Academic Press 2018
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Arctic
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127033/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30031732
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.07.004
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Summary:•Stress physiology was analyzed in response to multi-day snowstorms in 5 years.•Baseline corticosterone was unaffected by snowstorms in all but two instances.•Stress-induced corticosterone were typically elevated during snowstorms.•Stress physiology was significantly different across a multiday storm in only one year.•Body condition tended to increase on the first day of the storm.

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