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...
Published in: | General and Comparative Endocrinology |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
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Academic Press
2018
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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 |
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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