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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
卷 24, 期 11, 页码 634-642出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.04.013
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- Queen's University
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Fellowship [OISE-0700651]
- Baillie Family
- NSF [IOS-0545735, IOS-0750540]
- Directorate For Geosciences [0750540] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [0750540] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Baseline glucocorticoid (cort) levels are increasingly employed as physiological indices of the relative condition or health of individuals and populations. Often, high cort levels are assumed to indicate an individual or population in poor condition and with low relative fitness (the Cort-Fitness Hypothesis). We review empirical support for this assumption, and find that variation in levels of baseline cort is positively, negatively, or non-significantly related to estimates of fitness. These relationships between levels of baseline cort and fitness can vary within populations and can even shift within individuals at different times in their life history. Overall, baseline cort can predict the relative fitness of individuals and populations, but the relationship is not always consistent or present.
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