Glucocorticoids(GCs)are involved in the regulation of an animal's energetic state.Under stressful situations,they are part of the neuroendocrine response to cope with environmental challenges.Animals react to aversive...
We thank J.Healey and P.Lello for assistance with fieldwork and N.Lichti,R.K.Swihart and S.Agosta for earlier discussions on the potential for predators to impact patterns of cache placement by scatterhoarders and,in turn,the seed dispersal process.This study was in part supported by a Bullard Fellowship from Harvard Forest,Harvard University(to MAS),Wilkes University mentoring Fund,the U.S.National Science Foundation(DEB-12540642594)to MAS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to Wilkes University.
Scatterhoarding rodents often place caches in the open where pilferage rates are reduced,suggesting that they tradeoff higher risks of predation for more secure cache sites.We tested this hypothesis in two study syste...
In polymorphic mammalian species that display multiple color forms, those with dark, or melanic pelage would be prone to overheating, especially if they live in warm climates, because their fur absorbs solar energy at...