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Measuring animal welfare within a reintroduction: an assessment of different indices of stress in water voles Arvicola amphibius
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Reintroductions are an increasingly common conservation restoration tool; however, little attention has hitherto been given to different methods for monitoring the stress encountered by reintroduced individuals. We compared ten potential measures of stress within four different categories (neuroendocrine, cell function, body condition and immune system function) as proxies for animal welfare in water voles being reintroduced to the Upper Thames region, Oxfordshire, UK. Captive-bred voles were...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0041081
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 7
- Article number:
- e41081
- Publication date:
- 2012-07-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2012-06-18
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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22815923
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342423
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- English
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- Gelling et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- Copyright © 2012 Gelling et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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