A Collaborative Multiple Stressor Approach for Identifying Spatial Heterogeneities in Wildlife Health and Conservation Priorities.

ABSTRACT: Wildlife face a number of extrinsic stressors, such as habitat loss, pathogen infections, and contaminant exposure, which can increase the energy needed to maintain optimal health and survival. These multiple extrinsic stressors can also occur simultaneously during intrinsically stressful life stages such as reproduction, migration, or hibernation. To fully understand how to support healthy wildlife populations, we must quantify physiological and immunological phenotypes across a variety of stressors. We pose a framework for conducting field studies to collect individual-level samples that can be used for measuring physiological and immunological phenotypes as well as the potentially stressful intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of those phenotypes. We suggest that collaborative efforts should

SUBMITTER: Simonis MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12690475 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature