Article Title: Eye region surface temperature dynamics during acute stress relate to baseline glucocorticoids independently of environmental conditions

Year: 2019

Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Publisher: Elsevier

Authors:
Paul Jerem
Susanne Jenni-Eiermann
Dorothy McKeegan
Dominic J. McCafferty
Ruedi G. Nager

This dataset was collected to assess the relative importance of individual physiology (baseline glucocorticoid concentrations) and environmental conditions (air temperature and relative humidity) in determining the eye region surface temperature response to acute stress.

The data comprises two parts:

a) Individual Temperature Curves Folder

Individual eye region surface temperature responses to acute stress extracted from thermal imaging video of free living blue tits (Cyanistesi caeruleus) exposed to trapping and handling

Variables, definitions and units:

date
time
milliseconds
relativetime - time since the start of filming (s)
maximumeyeregiontemp - maximum eye region surface temperature (șC)

b) Summary Dataset.csv

A summary spreadsheet containing attributes defining the eye region surface temperature response, along with environmental, physiological and biometric data for each individual

Variables, definitions and units:

id - corresponds to filename of individual temperature curve
date
timeofday - time of day
airtemp - air temperature (șC)
humidity - relative humidity (%)
retrap - whether the bird was already ringed
age - age of bird according to British Trust for Ornithology Coding
sex
wing - wing chord length (mm)
mass - body mass (g)
condition index - body condition index (g)
capture time - duration between trap closure and bird being captured in experimenters hand (s)
baselineeyeregiontemp - baseline (pre-acute stress) eye region surface temperature (șC)
adrop - amplitude of initial drop in eye region surface temperature (șC)
sdrop - time elapsed between trap closure and adrop (s)
arecov - amplitude of post adrop recovery (șC)
srecov - time elapsed between trap closure and arecov (s)
mrecov - slope of recovery between adrop and arecov
mdecline - slope of post arecov decline
totalcort - total plasma corticosterone concentration (ng/ml)
sampling latency - duration between trap closure and blood sampling
maxpalmtemp - maximum temperature measured from the palm during first five seconds after hand entered the field of view (șC)