Research Note: It's not just stress—fecal contamination of plumage may affect feather corticosterone concentration
ABSTRACT: The feather corticosterone concentration (fCORT) is increasingly used to assess long-term stress in birds as this indicator provides the potential to retrospectively evaluate the adrenocortical activity of a bird during the growth period of a feather over several weeks in one sample. Howev...
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Elsevier
2021
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Accès en ligne: | https://doaj.org/article/ed9646f8077644c1ae4a741c7b46c46d |
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