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fecal glucocorticoid metabolites

Scope: methodological

Papers: 10 | Mentions: 11

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Knowledge graph centered on fecal glucocorticoid metabolites with 71 nodes and 170 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Marmota, Marmota flaviventris, Crested Butte.

Definition

Non-invasive measure of glucocorticoid hormone concentrations extracted from feces and used as proxy for physiological stress levels

Related Terms (11)

FGMsFGMfecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrationsGCMsfaecal glucocorticoid metabolitesfecal glucocorticoid metabolitesFCMsfecal corticosterone metabolitesstress hormonesfecal glucocorticoids

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glucocorticoid levels

Publications (10)

Is early life adversity associated with adult stress in a wild rodent?

2025Ecology and Evolution

How do humans impact yellow-bellied marmots? An integrative analysis

2021Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent

2019Hormones and behavior

An integrative study of marmot responses to ecotourism

Assessing the sensitivity of foraging and vigilance to internal state and environmental variables in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>).

2016Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Does Stress Explain Variation in Marmot Parenting Behavior or Pup Survival?

Stress hormone metabolites predict overwinter survival in yellow-bellied marmots

2015Acta Ethologica

Scared and less noisy: glucocorticoids are associated with alarm call entropy

2012Biology Letters

Related Concepts (10)

glucocorticoids

measurement5 shared papers

flush early and avoid the rush (FEAR) hypothesis

hypothesis3 shared papers

neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio

measurement2 shared papers

anthropogenic disturbance

phenomenon2 shared papers

alarm calling

phenomenon2 shared papers

biparental care

phenomenon2 shared papers

ecotourism

phenomenon2 shared papers

nonlinearity and fear hypothesis

hypothesis1 shared paper

biological stress

phenomenon1 shared paper

Reproductive success

measurement1 shared paper

Frequently Associated Species

Marmota

Sciuridae12 papers

Marmota flaviventris

Sciuridae12 papers

Suricata suricatta

Herpestidae5 papers

Callospermophilus lateralis

Sciuridae5 papers

Canis familiaris

Canidae4 papers

Marmota marmota

Sciuridae4 papers

Macaca mulatta

Cercopithecidae3 papers

Canis latrans

Canidae3 papers

Taxidea taxus

Mustelidae3 papers

Sus scrofa

Social attributes and associated performance measures in marmots: bigger male bullies and weakly affiliating females have higher annual reproductive success

2012Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild yellow-bellied marmots: experimental validation, individual differences and ecological correlates

2012General and Comparative Endocrinology