Conservation endocrinology
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Abstract
Endocrinologists can make significant contributions to conservation biology by helping to understand the mechanisms by which organisms cope with changing environments. Field endocrine techniques have advanced rapidly in recent years and can provide substantial information on the growth, stress, and reproductive status of individual animals, thereby providing insight into current and future responses of populations to changes in the environment. Environmental stressors and reproductive status can be detected nonlethally by measuring a number of endocrine-related endpoints, including steroids in plasma, living and nonliving tissue, urine, and feces. Information on the environmental or endocrine requirements of individual species for normal growth, development, and reproduction will provide critical information for species and ecosystem conservation. For many taxa, basic information on endocrinology is lacking, and advances in conservation endocrinology will require approaches that are both “basic” and “applied” and include integration of laboratory and field approaches.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Conservation endocrinology |
| Series title | BioScience |
| DOI | 10.1093/biosci/bix026 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Year Published | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Contributing office(s) | Leetown Science Center |
| Description | 14 p. |
| First page | 429 |
| Last page | 442 |
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