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Table 5 CORT concentrations of female stonechats in relation to breeding region and breeding stage

From: Baseline and stress-induced levels of corticosterone in male and female Afrotropical and European temperate stonechats during breeding

 

Post-capture CORT

Stress-induced CORT

 

Estimates and 95% credible intervals

Estimates and 95% credible intervals

Intercept:

Africa, mating stage

2.2 [1.8, 2.6]

3.9 [3.4, 4.3]

Europe

0.6 [0.08, 1.2]

0.7 [0.008, 1.4]

Incubation

−0.3 [−0.6, - 0.01]

0.04 [−0.4, 0.5]

Young

0.2 [−0.2, 0.5]

0.2 [−0.2, 0.6]

Europe*incubation

0.005 [−0.6, 0.6]

−0.4 [−1.0, 0.2]

Europe*young

0.03 [−0.6, 0.7]

−0.5 [−1.1, 0.1]

Scaled mass index

−0.03 [−0.1, 0.02]

−0.01 [−0.06, 0.04]

Age yearling

0.04 [−0.2, 0.3]

0.07 [−0.1, 0.3]

Time of day

−0.00002 [−0.0004, 0.0003]

0.0005 [0.0002, 0.0008]

Handling time

0.007 [0.004, 0.01]

 

Exposure STI

0.1 [−0.2, 0.4]

 
  1. Data shown are estimates and 95% Bayesian credible intervals of natural log-transformed CORT concentrations. Estimates are relative to the intercept as reference level, which here is the mating stage of African females. The left column shows the post-capture and the right column stress-induced CORT, each with the corresponding Bayesian estimate and its’ credible intervals. Estimates of cofactors refer to differences from the intercept estimate, which here is the mating stage of African females. When 0 (zero) is not included in the credible intervals there is an effect of this parameter on the dependent variable (shown in bold)