Avis d'expert en biologie environnementale

Environmental Stress on Animals: Adverse or Beneficial?

Christian E.W. Steinberg

Environmental Stress on Animals: Adverse or Beneficial?

“Stress” – this word has an ugly sound in the public opinion, and usually, stress is considered adverse: too much work load, or, conversely, unemployment; lack of success; unsolved family problems, etc. Such personal experience may have blinded many scholars to study environmental stresses and their impact on organisms, particularly on animals, more relaxed, more scientifically based and without personal bias.