Success stories and emerging themes in conservation physiology

摘要: The potential benefits of physiology for conservation are well established and include greater specificity management techniques, determination cause–effect relationships, increased sensitivity health disturbance monitoring capacity predicting future change. While descriptions the specific avenues in which physiol ogy can be integrated readily available important to continuing expansion discipline ‘conservation physiology’, date there has been no assessment how field specifically contributed success. However, goal is foster solutions it therefore assess whether physiological approaches contribute downstream outcomes decisions. Here, we present eight areas concern, ranging from chemical contamination invasive species ecotourism, where have led beneficial changes human behaviour, or policy. We also discuss shared character istics these successes, identifying emerging themes discipline. Specifically, conclude that ogy: (i) goes beyond documenting change provide solutions; (ii) offers a diversity metrics glucocorticoids (stress hormones); (iii) includes transferable among species, locations times; (iv) simultaneously allows use wildlife; (v) characterized by successes difficult find primary literature. Overall, submit strong foundation achievements issues, taxa, traits, ecosystem types spatial scales. hope concrete will encourage continued evolution tools within conservation-based research plans.