About this Research Topic
This Research Topic seeks to improve our understanding of the linkages between physiological measures in wild, free-living animals, and individual fitness/population health. It aims to evaluate the effectiveness of field-friendly physiological measures in assessing trends in wildlife populations, evaluating responses to disturbances, and tracking environmental health (e.g., through the One Health approach), which can illuminate underlying ecological and evolutionary processes.
We welcome submission of original research articles, literature reviews, and meta-analyses on the following topics (non-exhaustive list):
• Developmental physiological measures and their relationships to future fitness and/or population health/trends
• Short- and long-term correlations between physiological measures in wildlife, fitness, and/or population health/trends
• Insights into the universality of physiological correlates of fitness across species
• Ecophysiology of wild animal populations within the One Health framework
• Applications of ecophysiological techniques to the management of wildlife populations
• Insights from ecophysiological techniques to underlying ecological and evolutionary processes in wild populations
• Evolution of wildlife physiology (e.g., common ecophysiological measures) in response to disturbance
Keywords: Survival, reproduction, health, wild animals, populations
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