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List of works by Rudy Boonstra

A Test of the Chitty Hypothesis: Inheritance of Life-History Traits in Meadow Voles Microtus pennsylvanicus

scientific article published on 01 September 1987

A non-invasive technique for analyzing fecal cortisol metabolites in snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus).

scientific article

Age determination in yellow-pine chipmunks (Tamias amoenus): a comparison of eye lens masses and bone sections

article by Jennifer Barker et al published October 2003 in Canadian Journal of Zoology

Aggression in Columbian ground squirrels: relationships with age, kinship, energy allocation, and fitness

scientific article published in 2016

Aggressive behavior of adult meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) towards young

scientific article published on 01 April 1984

Anogenital distance as a measure of male competitive ability in Rwenzori Angolan colobus

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Assessing Stress in Arctic Lemmings: Fecal Metabolite Levels Reflect Plasma Free Corticosterone Levels

scientific article

Assessing stress in animal populations: Do fecal and plasma glucocorticoids tell the same story?

scientific article published on 4 January 2010

Assessing the impact of live-capture, confinement, and translocation on stress and fate in eastern gray squirrels

article

Assessment of the stress response in Columbian ground squirrels: laboratory and field validation of an enzyme immunoassay for fecal cortisol metabolites

scientific article

Balancing food and predator pressure induces chronic stress in songbirds

scientific article published in December 2004

Being high is better: effects of elevation and habitat on arctic ground squirrel demography

scientific article published in 2005

Can camera trapping provide accurate estimates of small mammal (Myodes rutilusandPeromyscus maniculatus) density in the boreal forest?

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Comprehensive endocrine response to acute stress in the bottlenose dolphin from serum, blubber, and feces

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

Coping with Changing Northern Environments: The Role of the Stress Axis in Birds and Mammals

scientific article published on April 1, 2004

Coping with Intense Reproductive Aggression in Male Arctic Ground Squirrels: The Stress Axis and Its Signature Tell Divergent Stories

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Coping with differences in snow cover: the impact on the condition, physiology and fitness of an arctic hibernator

scientific article

Coping with pregnancy after 9months in the dark: Post-hibernation buffering of high maternal stress in arctic ground squirrels

scientific article published on 7 November 2015

Corticosteroid-binding globulin levels in North American sciurids: implications for the flying squirrel stress axis

scientific article published in 2018

DHEA and territoriality during the nonbreeding season in male American martens (Martes americana)

scientific article published in 2018

DHEA effects on brain and behavior: insights from comparative studies of aggression.

scientific article

Demography of short-tailed shrew populations living on polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated sites

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Demography of snowshoe hare population cycles

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Density triggers maternal hormones that increase adaptive offspring growth in a wild mammal

scientific article

Equipped for Life in the Boreal Forest: The Role of the Stress Axis in Mammals

Experimental Increases in Glucocorticoids Alter Function of the HPA Axis in Wild Red Squirrels without Negatively Impacting Survival and Reproduction

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Experimental increase in predation risk causes a cascading stress response in free-ranging snowshoe hares

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Experimental increases in glucocorticoids alter function of the neuroendocrine stress axis in wild red squirrels without negatively impacting survival and reproduction

Fecal cortisol metabolite levels in free-ranging North American red squirrels: Assay validation and the effects of reproductive condition

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

Friends and strangers: a test of the Charnov-Finerty Hypothesis

scientific article published on 01 October 1988

From pattern to purpose: how comparative studies contribute to understanding the function of adult neurogenesis.

scientific article published on September 2011

From process to pattern: how fluctuating predation risk impacts the stress axis of snowshoe hares during the 10-year cycle

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

Glucocorticoids and CBG during pregnancy in mammals: diversity, pattern, and function

scientific article

Hair cortisol as a reliable indicator of stress physiology in the snowshoe hare: Influence of body region, sex, season, and predator-prey population dynamics

scientific article published on 29 March 2020

Heterozygosity, Aggression, and Population Fluctuations in Meadow Voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus)

scientific article published on 01 August 1994

High Arctic lemmings remain reproductively active under predator-induced elevated stress

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Highly polymorphic genetic markers in meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) revealed by a murine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) probe

scientific article published in 1991

Hormetic effects of gamma radiation on the stress axis of natural populations of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus).

scientific article

How does diet affect fecal steroid hormone metabolite concentrations? An experimental examination in red squirrels

scientific article published on 19 August 2011

Impact of high predation risk on genome-wide hippocampal gene expression in snowshoe hares

scientific article published on 19 September 2014

Impact of live trapping on stress profiles of Richardson's ground squirrel (Spermophilus richardsonii).

scientific article

Indirect predator effects on clutch size and the cost of egg production

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

Individual variation in phenotypic plasticity of the stress axis

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Infanticide in microtines: Importance in natural populations

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Integrating Ecological and Evolutionary Context in the Study of Maternal Stress

scientific article

Introduction: Biology of the Canadian Arctic: A Crucible for Change in the 21st Century

article

Managing anabolic steroids in pre-hibernating Arctic ground squirrels: obtaining their benefits and avoiding their costs

scientific article

Maternal androgens and behaviour in free-ranging North American red squirrels

article by Ben Dantzer et al published February 2011 in Animal Behaviour

Maternal effects and additive genetic inheritance in the collared lemming Dicrostonyx groenlandicus

Measurement of free glucocorticoids: quantifying corticosteroid-binding globulin binding affinity and its variation within and among mammalian species

scientific article published on 15 May 2015

Measures of physiological stress: a transparent or opaque window into the status, management and conservation of species?

scientific article

Measuring Temporal Variability of Population Density: A Critique

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Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Mechanisms for delayed density-dependent reproductive traits in field voles, Microtus agrestis: the importance of inherited environmental effects

scientific article published in 2001

Multiple measures elucidate glucocorticoid responses to environmental variation in predation threat

scientific article published on 30 January 2011

Noninvasive monitoring of fecal cortisol metabolites in the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus): validation and comparison of two enzyme immunoassays

scientific article published on 7 February 2012

Northern Hawk-Owls in the Nearctic Boreal Forest: Prey Selection and Population Consequences of Multiple Prey Cycles

scholarly article published in The Condor in February 1995

Overwinter mass loss of snowshoe hares in the Yukon: starvation, stress, adaptation or artefact?

scientific article published on January 2006

Plasma DHEA levels in wild, territorial red squirrels: seasonal variation and effect of ACTH.

scientific article published on 11 May 2008

Population dynamics of red-backed voles (Myodes) in North America

scientific article published on September 25, 2011

Population dynamics of the collared lemming and the tundra vole at Pearce Point, Northwest Territories, Canada

scientific article published on 01 September 1995

Population limitation of the northern red-backed vole in the boreal forests of northern Canada

scientific article published on November 2006

Preparing for winter: divergence in the summer-autumn hematological profiles from representative species of the squirrel family.

scientific article published in September 2005

Prey availability and ambient temperature influence carrion persistence in the boreal forest

scientific article published on 19 July 2020

Quantifying fear effects on prey demography in nature

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Responses of New World flying squirrels to the acute stress of capture and handling

article

Scavenging By Snowshoe Hares (Lepus americanus) In Yukon, Canada

scientific article published in December 2018

Seasonal programming, not competition or testosterone, drives stress-axis changes in a partially-semelparous mammal

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Sex-specific maternal programming of corticosteroid-binding globulin by predator odour

scientific article published in 2021

Stress activity is not predictive of coping style in North American red squirrels

Stress and the microbiome: linking glucocorticoids to bacterial community dynamics in wild red squirrels

scientific article published in January 2016

Stress triangle: do introduced predators exert indirect costs on native predators and prey?

scientific article

Surviving winter: Food, but not habitat structure, prevents crashes in cyclic vole populations

scientific article

Synchrony in the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) cycle in northwestern North America, 1970–2012

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THE IMPACT OF PREDATOR-INDUCED STRESS ON THE SNOWSHOE HARE CYCLE

scientific article published in 1998

The Impact of Predator-Induced Stress on the Snowshoe Hare Cycle

scientific article published in 1998

The Neurological Ecology of Fear: Insights Neuroscientists and Ecologists Have to Offer one Another

scientific article published on April 25, 2011

The benefits of baseline glucocorticoid measurements: Maximal cortisol production under baseline conditions revealed in male Richardon’s ground squirrels (Urocitellus richardsonii)

scientific article published on July 16, 2012

The dilemma of foraging herbivores: dealing with food and fear.

scientific article published in October 2014

The ghosts of predators past: population cycles and the role of maternal programming under fluctuating predation risk

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

The impact of botfly parasitism on the health of the gracile mouse opossum (Gracilinanus agilis)

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

The impact of reproduction on the stress axis of free-living male northern red backed voles (Myodes rutilus).

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

The impact of rewilding, species introductions and climate change on the structure and function of the Yukon boreal forest ecosystem

scientific article

The role of herbivory in the macroevolution of vertebrate hormone dynamics

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

The role of the lynx–hare cycle in boreal forest community dynamics

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The sensitive hare: sublethal effects of predator stress on reproduction in snowshoe hares

scientific article published on 23 April 2009

The stress of Arctic warming on polar bears

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

The stress of being alone: Removal from the colony, but not social subordination, increases fecal cortisol metabolite levels in eusocial naked mole-rats

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Trapping-induced changes in expression of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in the hippocampus of snowshoe hares

scientific article

Using experimentation to understand the 10-year snowshoe hare cycle in the boreal forest of North America.

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

When death comes: linking predator–prey activity patterns to timing of mortality to understand predation risk

scientific article published in 2023

When the ball is in the female's court: How the scramble-competition mating system of the North American red squirrel has shaped male physiology and testosterone dynamics

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Why Do the Boreal Forest Ecosystems of Northwestern Europe Differ from Those of Western North America?

scientific article

You can hide but you can't run: apparent competition, predator responses and the decline of Arctic ground squirrels in boreal forests of the southwest Yukon

scientific article