Research Note: It's not just stress-fecal contamination of plumage may affect feather corticosterone concentration.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2021.101494
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… read more here.
Keywords: feather corticosterone; fcort; contamination; contamination plumage ... See more keywords