ArticleBiology open2018
Do wild-caught urban house sparrows show desensitized stress responses to a novel stressor?
Article in Biology open, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Feather corticosterone reveals that urban great tits experience lower corticosterone exposure than forest individuals during dominance-rank establishment.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Physiological and morphological correlates of blood parasite infection in urban and non-urban house sparrow populations.PloS one · 2020Article
- Does urbanization cause stress in wild birds during development? Insights from feather corticosterone levels in juvenile house sparrows (Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Plasma 1α-Hydroxycorticosterone as Biomarker for Acute Stress in Catsharks (Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Breath rate of passerines across an urbanization gradient supports the pace-of-life hypothesis and suggests diet-mediated responses to handling stress.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
While urbanization exposes individuals to novel challenges, urban areas may also constitute stable environments in which seasonal fluctuations are buffered. Baseline and stress-induced plasma corticosterone (cort) levels are often found to be similar in urban and rural populations. Here we aimed to disentangle two possible mechanisms underlying such pattern: (i) urban environments are no more stressful or urban birds have a better ability to habituate to stressors; or (ii) urban birds developed desensitized stress responses. We exposed wild-caught urban and rural house sparrows (
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