The influence of hunting pressure and ecological factors on fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild elk

Agriculture & Biology

• elks 100%
• group size 80%
• glucocorticoids 80%
• Cervus canadensis 65%
• metabolites 49%
• environmental factors 47%
• ecologists 44%
• human population 40%
• anthropogenic activities 39%
• habitat fragmentation 39%
• corticosterone 38%
• food availability 37%
• population growth 34%
• cortisol 34%
• climate change 31%
• biodiversity 30%
• predation 29%
• forage 28%
• cows 26%
• sampling 13%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• ecological factor 85%
• hunting 74%
• general circulation model 70%
• metabolite 67%
• group size 20%
• habitat fragmentation 9%
• food availability 9%
• forage 8%
• human population 8%
• fitness 8%
• predation 7%
• population growth 7%
• perturbation 6%
• biodiversity 6%
• effect 5%
• disturbance 5%
• food 5%
• climate change 4%
• need 4%