Considerations of context and scale when using fecal glucocorticoids to indicate stress in large mammals: A study of wild American plains bison

Agriculture & Biology

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• corticosterone 56%
• mammals 53%
• stress response 29%
• Bison bison 27%
• hormones 25%
• physical activity 21%
• geography 21%
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• anthropogenic activities 19%
• habitat preferences 18%
• herds 15%
• mountains 15%
• feces 14%
• physiology 14%
• animals 7%
• sampling 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

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• feces 41%
• physiology 36%
• geography 35%
• human activity 28%
• animal 24%
• mountain 24%
• distribution 13%