The prevalence and intensity of parasites in wild hosts varies across space and is a key
determinant of infection risk in humans, domestic animals and threatened wildlife. Because …

Birds are vulnerable to petroleum pollution, and exposure has a range of negative effects
resulting from plumage fouling, systemic toxicity, and embryotoxicity. Recent research has …

This is the first in the “new series” of expert panel reports to be commissioned by The Royal
Society of Canada/La Société royale du Canada. The Council of the Society, the presidents …

Integrated measures of corticosterone (CORT), such as from feathers (CORTf), have intuitive
appeal because they incorporate both the duration and amplitude of glucocorticoid …

Enrichment is widely used as tool for managing fearfulness, undesirable behaviors, and
stress in captive animals, and for studying exploration and personality. Inconsistencies in …

For birds, unpredictable environments during the energetically stressful times of moulting
and breeding are expected to have negative fitness effects. Detecting those effects however …

Birds have been widely used as sentinels of ecosystem health reflecting changes in habitat
quality, increased incidence of disease, and exposure to and effects of chemical …

The measure of corticosterone (CORT) in feathers has been recently recognized as a valid
and easily obtainable measure of chronic glucocorticoids secretion in avian species. This …

Boreal wetlands are at risk of degradation from anthropogenic activities including oil sands
energy extraction. Despite efforts to monitor the impacts of oil sands energy extraction …

Unconventional oil production in Alberta's oil sands generates oil sands process-affected
water (OSPW), which contains toxic constituents such as naphthenic acid fraction …