The recently introduced technique of measuring corticosterone in feathers currently provides
the longest-term measure of corticosterone in birds. This review examines the strengths …

The concentration of the glucocorticoid hormone corticosterone (CORT) is increasingly used
in ecology and conservation biology as an integrated measure of the historical record of an …

Urban endocrine ecology aims to understand how organisms cope with new sources of
stress and maintain allostatic load to thrive in an increasingly urbanized world. Recent …

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

Quantifying habitat quality is dependent on measuring a site's relative contribution to
population growth rate. This is challenging for studies of waterbirds, whose high mobility can …

Measuring corticosterone in feathers allows researchers to make long-term, retrospective
assessments of physiology with non-invasive sampling. To date, there is little evidence that …

Urban landscapes are associated with abiotic and biotic environmental changes that may
result in potential stressors for wild vertebrates. Urban exploiters have physiological …

Urbanization drives phenotypic variation in many animal species. This includes behavioral
and physiological traits such as activity patterns, aggression, and hormone levels. A current …

In birds, the steroid hormone corticosterone (CORT) is considered a major mediator in a
number of physiological mechanisms and behaviours critical for the regulation of an …

Allostatic load describes the interplay between energetic demand and availability and is
highly context dependent, varying between seasons and life‐history stages. When energy …