HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND STRESS INDEX IN RUFOUS-COLLARED SPARROWS DWELLING IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

By G. Ruiz, M. Rosenmann, F. Novoa, P. Sabat. 2002

170 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Parasitology

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2. Paul R. Martin
3. J. Wingfield
4. S. Altizer
5. F. Bonier
6. Brendan Delehanty

In Ecology

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2. J. Wingfield
3. Paul R. Martin
4. Jaime Ramos
5. A. K. Davis
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2. J. Wingfield
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Citations in the corpus

• Interspecific variation in avian blood parasites and haematology associated with urbanization in a desert habitat (2008, result): “Previous studies demonstrated differences in hematological parameters in birds across an urban-rural gradient (Gavett and Wakeley 1986, Ruiz et al. 2002, Bonier et al. 2007), but this study is the first to examine how blood parasitism, body condition, and immunity covary across species in an urban…”
• Effect of handling time and repeated sampling on avian white blood cell counts (2005, background): “…heterophils and lymphocytes (H/L ratio), has been increasingly used by ornithologists to monitor immune function, as it appears to increase with decreasing territory quality (Mazerolle and Hobson 2002), disease (Davis et al. 2004), injury (Vleck et al. 2000), and urbanization (Ruiz et al. 2002).”
• Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments (2013, result): “In contrast to these findings, urban rufous-collared sparrows, Zonotrichia capensis, had higher primary (acute) and secondary (chronic) physiological stress characteristics and lower body mass than rural individuals (Ruiz et al., 2002).”
• Sex-specific consequences of life in the city (2007, background): “Variation in physiological and behavioral traits has been found in other urban species (e.g., Ruiz et al. 2002; Slabbekoorn and Peet 2003; Partecke et al. 2004; Schoech et al. 2004; Yeh and Price 2004), but, to our knowledge, our report is the first showing elevated cort levels in an urban organis”
• Leukocyte Profiles in Wild House Finches with and without Mycoplasmal Conjunctivitis, a Recently Emerged Bacterial Disease (2004, background): “The relative proportion of each type of leukocyte in an animal’s circulating bloodstream is referred to as its leukocyte profile (also called the leukocyte differential), and assessing leukocyte profiles can allow for estimates of infection status and provide indices of stress at the time of samplin”
• Evaluating stress in natural populations of vertebrates: total CORT is not good enough (2013, background): “studies of natural populations (Boonstra et al. 1998; Hik, McColl & Boonstra 2001; Ruiz et al. 2002; Clinchy et al. 2004; Sheriff et al. 2011).”
• Variation of adult Great Tit Parus major body condition and blood parameters in relation to sex, age, year and season (2009, background): “Heterophil/lymphocyte ratio (H/L) is an often used stress indicator in birds (Gross and Siegel 1983; Maxwell 1993) increasing as a response to stressors, such as psychological stress related with fear and social disruption, food restriction, temperature stress and noise among others (Vleck et al. 20”