Yellow-bellied Marmot Social Behavior and Population Dynamics
studies how yellow-bellied marmots form social relationships, respond to predators, and maintain populations over multiple decades, providing insights into mammalian social evolution and conservation.
Concept (66) →
antipredator behavior
Behaviors that reduce the likelihood of predation, including vigilance and evasion tactics
social network analysis
A method used to quantify social relationships that not only quantifies the direct relationship between a focal individual and its social partners, bu...
winter survival
Survival of organisms through winter diapause or dormancy, often related to environmental conditions during overwintering
heritability
The proportion of phenotypic variation in a trait that is due to genetic variation, estimated using parent-offspring regression methods
alarm communication
Vocal signals produced in response to predator detection to warn conspecifics or communicate threat information
early-life trade-offs
The concept that organisms face competing demands for limited resources during development that create trade-offs between different fitness components
foraging ecology
The study of how animals search for and utilize food resources in their environment
density dependence
Population regulation mechanism where demographic rates depend on population density through competition and resource limitation
flight initiation distance
The distance at which an individual initiates moving away from an approaching humans, reflecting flightiness of an animal in response to a potential p...
lifetime reproductive success
The total number of offspring that an individual successfully produces and rears to independence over their entire lifetime
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slow-fast continuum
A commonly used framework to describe variation in life-history strategies across species, ranking organisms from slow to fast living based on combina...
environmental stochasticity
Random environmental variation that affects demographic parameters across all individuals in a population simultaneously
reproductive senescence
A within-individual process caused by deterioration in molecular and physiological function resulting in a decrease in survival probability and reprod...
time allocation tradeoff
The finite time and energy budget forcing organisms to trade off between competing activities like foraging and vigilance
mark-recapture
Method for estimating demographic parameters by marking individuals and tracking recapture histories over time
dispersal
The movement away from your place of birth and onto another location involving decision to depart, displacement, and settlement
kin selection
Natural selection that favors behaviors that benefit relatives, even at a cost to the individual performing the behavior
facultative sociality
Social systems where individuals have flexibility in their social behaviors and group membership rather than being obligately social
population stage structure
The distribution of individuals across different size or age classes within a population
habituation
Process by which animals become less responsive to repeated non-threatening stimuli over time
vocal individuality
The degree to which individuals can be discriminated from one another based on their vocalizations, quantified using information theory
animal model
Statistical approach that includes individual identity as a random effect linked to a pedigree to estimate additive genetic variance
docility
Individual's reaction to being trapped and handled, measured on behavioral scale from aggressive to passive responses
centrality measures
Network statistics that quantify the importance or influence of individuals within social networks, including degree, closeness, betweenness, and eige...
acoustic playback experiment
Experimental technique using recorded sounds played back to animals to test behavioral or physiological responses to acoustic stimuli
philopatry
tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area
phylogenetically independent contrasts
A method to test for phylogenetic signal by comparing empirical data variance to variance from randomly reshuffled species identities across trait dat...
animal personality
Consistent individual differences in behaviour across time and contexts, concept known as animal personality, behavioural types, temperament or coping...
vigilance behavior
Time allocation to scanning for predators versus other activities like foraging, measured through specific postures and head orientations
fecal glucocorticoid metabolites
Metabolites of stress hormones measured in fecal samples as a proxy for physiological stress levels
camera trapping
Non-invasive wildlife monitoring technique using motion-triggered cameras to detect and photograph animals
nesting preferences
The selective choices made by organisms regarding where to construct nests, influenced by environmental factors that affect offspring survival and rep...
survival probability
The likelihood that an individual survives from one time period to the next
acoustic localization
Method to determine the spatial origin of sound sources using arrays of microphones and signal processing techniques
transgenerational plasticity
Plasticity that occurs across generations where parental environmental effects influence offspring phenotype or fitness
anthropogenic disturbance
Human activities that impose novel challenges on a wide range of species, which can negatively influence individuals, populations, and communities as ...
reproductive suppression
Reduction in reproductive output of individuals due to presence of other conspecifics, particularly older or dominant individuals
Life Table Response Experiment
A method to partition variance in population growth rate into contributions arising from temporal covariances of demographic parameters at different t...
stress hormones
Cortisol and glucocorticoids that help regulate energy balance in animals and could determine dispersal behavior under stressful conditions
polygamous mating system
Mating system where males compete with one another over access to matelines consisting of groups of related females
antisocial behavior
Directed aggression toward conspecifics, increasing spatial distancing from or decreasing huddling with unfamiliar conspecifics
nonlinear phenomena
Acoustic phenomena including subharmonics, biphonation, deterministic chaos, and warbles that occur when vocal production apparatus loses control
dominance hierarchy
Social ranking system based on agonistic interactions where some individuals consistently dominate others
intraclass correlation coefficient
Statistical measure of repeatability that tests individual consistency of a continuous variable by comparing within-subject and between-subject variat...
summer survival
Probability of surviving the summer active season, measured by last sighting dates relative to seasonal cutoffs
time budget
The allocation of time among different activities that determines overall energy expenditure patterns
neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio
Ratio of neutrophil to lymphocyte white blood cell counts used as a measure of immune response activity
population sensitivity
Scaled measure of how population growth rate responds to changes in environmental drivers
behavioral syndromes
Correlations between multiple repeatable, individually distinct behaviors that form consistent behavioral patterns across situations
inclusive fitness
Fitness benefits that include both direct fitness (individual's own reproductive success) and indirect fitness (fitness gained by helping relatives re...
long-term ecological studies
Ecological research projects that follow individuals or systems over extended periods, often spanning decades
affiliative social relationships
Positive social interactions and bonds between individuals including behaviors like grooming, playing, and proximity maintenance
intra-individual variation
Variation in behavioral expression within individuals across time or contexts
reproduction ratio
The average number of offspring produced by a typical individual during its life, calculated as the product of offspring number and survival probabili...
compensatory growth
Ability of organisms to compensate for poor early-life conditions through increased feeding or altered resource allocation later in life
nonlinearity and fear hypothesis
Hypothesis that highly aroused animals produce nonlinear vocalizations because they lose control of their larynx over vocal fold production apparatus
inbreeding depression
Reduced fitness in inbred individuals compared to outbred individuals due to expression of deleterious recessive alleles
matrilineal society
Social organization where related females remain together and males typically disperse
individual-based rarefaction
Statistical method to compare species richness across samples by generating accumulation curves based on individual encounters
social embeddedness
The degree to which an individual is integrated in their group based on the number of independent links to others in the group
intrusion competition
Competition where individuals attempt to take over established breeding resources from other pairs
age at first reproduction
The age at which females first reproduce, an important component of vertebrate life histories with effects on individual fitness and population dynami...
focal animal sampling
Behavioral observation method where a single individual is observed continuously for a fixed time period
Social Security Hypothesis
Individuals in more tightly connected social groups perceive greater security from predators and allocate less time to antipredator vigilance while fo...
group size effect
The hypothesis that animals allocate less time to antipredator vigilance as a function of increasing numbers of animals foraging together
kinship
Protocol (25) →
mark-recapture (Sciuridae)
A 20-year longitudinal study tracking individually marked female marmots through live-trapping, unique marking, and behavioral observations to quantif...
focal animal sampling (Sciuridae)
Live-trapping and marking of yellow-bellied marmots followed by systematic focal behavioral observations to quantify time allocation to different beha...
Social network analysis (Sciuridae)
Direct observation of social interactions using binoculars and spotting scopes during peak activity periods. Interactions are classified as affiliativ...
LTRE analysis (Sciuridae)
Stage-mass-structured IPMs incorporating seasonal demographic transitions and environmental stochasticity for population viability analysis. Uses pros...
automated weather monitoring (Sciuridae)
Integration of temperature, precipitation, and snow cover data from multiple weather stations and remote sensing platforms to characterize environment...
Blumstein & Daniel transmission fidelity technique (Sciuridae)
Digital recording and spectral analysis of alarm vocalizations to quantify entropy and goodness of pitch as measures of call structure and acoustic pr...
microsatellite parentage assignment (Sciuridae)
DNA extraction from hair samples followed by microsatellite genotyping to determine parentage relationships and construct molecular pedigrees for quan...
radioimmunoassay (Sciuridae)
Progesterone concentrations measured using radioimmunoassay with tritiated progesterone, ether extraction, and antibody binding assay. Standard curves...
Flight initiation distance measurement (Sciuridae)
Systematic measurement of antipredator escape behavior by approaching focal individuals at standardized speed and recording distances at key behaviora...
parent-offspring regression (Sciuridae)
Mixed-effects modeling approach to partition phenotypic variance into genetic and environmental components using pedigree information and repeated mea...
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residual body condition index (Sciuridae)
Linear mixed effect models to estimate individual body mass at key seasonal transition points, accounting for day-of-year effects and random variation...
radio-telemetry (Sciuridae)
Intensive monitoring of juvenile emergence and movements using daily visual observations and grid-based distance calculations to characterize dispersa...
neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (Sciuridae)
Blood collection and analysis to determine neutrophil and lymphocyte counts for calculating neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios as a measure of immune res...
Reproductive success assessment in marmots (Sciuridae)
Assessment of female reproductive success through behavioral observation of pup emergence from natal burrows and pedigree analysis to assign offspring...
fecal flotation (Sciuridae)
Fecal sample collection and zinc sulfate flotation protocol for detecting intestinal parasites including Ascaris, Eimeria, and Entamoeba in marmot fec...
open-field test (Sciuridae)
Standardized 4-minute test immediately following open field test where a mirror is revealed to measure sociability and aggressive responses toward con...
change point analysis (Sciuridae)
Statistical method using continuous two-phase models to identify the age at which body mass growth stabilizes at adult levels in golden-mantled ground...
Behavioral discrimination experiments for individual recognition (Sciuridae)
Controlled experiments testing marmots' ability to distinguish between individuals using acoustic and olfactory cues to assess recognition capabilitie...
Predation risk assessment through predator counts (Sciuridae)
Systematic predator monitoring during behavioral observations to quantify predation pressure. Creates predation index by dividing predator counts by o...
radiotelemetry (Sciuridae)
Colony sites are visited daily starting April 19th each year to record the first emergence date of individual marmots from hibernation through direct ...
Audio playback experiment
Controlled playback experiments using modified alarm calls to test receiver behavioral responses to different acoustic features including added noise ...
generalized linear mixed model (Sciuridae)
Bayesian statistical approach to simultaneously estimate individual lifetime means and variances in social traits from longitudinal data. Controls for...
Territory mapping (Aves)
Territory delineation by following singing males and recording GPS coordinates of singing locations to map territory boundaries and calculate area and...
Live-trap docility assessment (Sciuridae)
Live-trapping of marmots to assess docility through standardized behavioral responses during capture and handling, including alarm calling propensity ...
GIS-based human disturbance quantification (Sciuridae)
RASTER-based spatial analysis to quantify multiple metrics of anthropogenic disturbance including distance to infrastructure and proportion of impervi...
Author (40) →
Daniel T. Blumstein
Kenneth B. Armitage
Julien G. A. Martin
D. H. Van Vuren
T. W. Wey
Dana M. Williams
M. B. Petelle
Caitlin P. Wells
Adriana A. Maldonado-Chaparro
J. C. Daniel
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D. Z. Childs
Conner S. Philson
Link E. Olson
Svenja B. Kroeger
John Ward Smith
Jane M. Reid
C. M. Salsbury
Nathalie Munoz
L. Girod
Bernt-Erik Saether
Maria Paniw
R. Monclus
Robert Wayne
O. A. Schwartz
James V. Ward
Jamie C. Winternitz
Céline Teplitsky
C. E. Taylor
T. C. Collier
M. Festa-Bianchet
T. Coulson
G. C. Johnson
J. R. Aliperti
Tiffany Armenta
X. Ortiz Ross
J. F. Downhower
G. E. Svendsen
B. C. Woods
J. C. Melcher
B. A. Frase
Publication (222) →
Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change
Yellow-bellied marmots: insights from an emergent view of sociality.
A 32-year demography of yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
A test of the social cohesion hypothesis: interactive female marmots remain at home
Social attributes and associated performance measures in marmots: bigger male bullies and weakly affiliating females have higher annual reproductive success
Effect of predation risk on the presence and persistence of yellow-bellied marmot <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i> colonies
Marmota flaviventris
Reproductive strategies of yellow-bellied marmots: energy conservation and differences between the sexes
Duration of snow cover and its influence on life-history variation in yellow-bellied marmots
Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent
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Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species
Seasonal changes in weights of marmots
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal
Social cohesion in yellow-bellied marmots is established through age and kin structuring
Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal.
Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots
Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationships
Social behaviour of a colony of the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris)
Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots
Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness
Heritability of anti-predatory traits: vigilance and locomotor performance in marmots
Male behaviour and territoriality in the yellow-bellied marmot
Strong social relationships are associated with decreased longevity in a facultatively social mammal
Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots
Social enhancement of fitness in yellow-bellied marmots
Behavioral and environmental factors in the spatial distribution and population dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot population
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild yellow-bellied marmots: experimental validation, individual differences and ecological correlates
Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?
Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity
Growth and survival of juvenile yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent
Fitness and hormonal correlates of social and ecological stressors of female yellow-bellied marmots.
How social behaviour and life-history traits change with age and in the year prior to death in female yellow-bellied marmots
Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls
Assessing seasonal demographic covariation to understand environmental-change impacts on a hibernating mammal
Applying the coalitionary-traits metric: sociality without cooperation in male yellow-bellied marmots
Development of boldness and docility in yellow-bellied marmots.
Social and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots: results from long-term research
Age and location influence the costs of compensatory and accelerated growth in a hibernating mammal
Spatiotemporal variation in reproductive parameters of yellow-bellied marmots
Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild
Yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics: demographic mechanisms of growth and decline
Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance
Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant?
Agonistic and affiliative social relationships are associated with marmot docility but not boldness
The effect of maternal glucocorticoid levels on juvenile docility in yellow-bellied marmots
Hibernation as a major determinant of life-history traits in marmots
Energetics of yellow-bellied marmot populations
Quantifying human disturbance on antipredator behavior and flush initiation distance in yellow-bellied marmots
Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers
Individual differences and reproductive success in yellow-bellied marmots
Bigger is not always better: Viability selection on body mass varies across life stages in a hibernating mammal
Age, state, environment and season dependence of senescence in body mass
Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality
How do humans impact yellow-bellied marmots? An integrative analysis
Sick and alone? Evaluating how immune response is associated with social network position in yellow-bellied marmots
Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles
The structure, meaning and function of yellow-bellied marmot pup screams
Is flight initiation distance associated with longer-term survival in yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventer?
Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation
Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls
The social microbiome: gut microbiome diversity and abundance are negatively associated with sociality in a wild mammal
Behavioral ecology of alpine yellow-bellied marmots
Are social attributes associated with alarm calling propensity?
Heritable variation in the timing of emergence from hibernation
Weather influences on demography of the yellow-bellied marmot (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
Spatiotemporal variation in survival rates: implications for population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots
Population time budget for the yellow-bellied marmot
Survival of dispersing and philopatric yellow-bellied marmots: what is the cost of dispersal?
Producer-scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots
The sound of arousal: the addition of novel non-linearities increases responsiveness in marmot alarm calls
Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls
Transient LTRE analysis reveals the demographic and trait-mediated processes that buffer population growth
Age and sex influence marmot antipredator behavior during periods of heightened risk
Social variety in the yellow-bellied marmot: a population-behavioural system
Life history consequences of climate change in hibernating mammals: a review
The effect of food supplementation on juvenile growth and survival in Marmota flaviventris
Social Security: social relationship strength and connectedness influence how marmots respond to alarm calls
No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite survival costs in a polygynous rodent
Parasites Are Associated With Noisy Alarm Calls
Sociality as a life-history tactic of ground squirrels
Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls
Early play may predict later dominance relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
Yellow-bellied marmots are generalist herbivores
A cost of being amicable in a hibernating marmot.
Indirect fitness benefits do not compensate for the loss of direct fitness in yellow-bellied marmots
Cooperative breeding in marmots
Peripheral obstructions influence marmot vigilance: integrating observational and experimental results
Do individual differences influence flight initiation distance?
Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?
Sex-specific reproductive strategies in wild yellow-bellied marmots (<i> Marmota flaviventer </i>): senescence and genetic variance in annual reproductive success differ between the sexes
The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication
Older mothers produce more successful daughters.
Resting and field metabolic rates of adult male yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventris
Developmental and social constraints on early reproduction in an asocial ground squirrel
Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal
Stochastic population dynamics of a montane ground-dwelling squirrel
Detecting context dependence in the expression of life history trade-offs
Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems
Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance
Does locomotor ability influence flight initiation distance in yellow-bellied marmots?
Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation
Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots
Evolution of sociality in marmots
Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel
Maternal survival costs in an asocial mammal
Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places
Factors affecting oxygen consumption in wild-caught yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)
Ontogeny and symmetry of social partner choice among free-living yellow-bellied marmots
Circannual rhythms of food consumption, body mass, and metabolism in yellow-bellied marmots
Individuality, social behavior, and reproductive success in yellow-bellied marmots
Influence of population density and climate on the demography of subalpine golden-mantled ground squirrels
Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality
Kinship, reproductive strategies, and social dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots
Costs and benefits of sociality in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>): do noncolonial females have lower fitness?
Oxygen consumption and body temperature in yellow-bellied marmot populations from montane-mesic and lowland-xeric environments
Genetic basis of between-individual and within-individual variance of docility
Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots
Sociality and individual fitness in yellow-bellied marmots: insights from a long-term study (1962-2001)
Vernal behaviour of the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris)
Socioecology of marmots: female reproductive strategies
Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences
Transitivity and structural balance in marmot social networks
A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators
Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes contribute to mass gain variation in female obligate hibernators
Why do yellow-bellied marmots call?
Population changes and social behavior following colonization by the yellow-bellied marmot
Mixed support for state maintaining risky personality traits in yellow-bellied marmots
Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond
Genetic variation in social mammals: the marmot model
Badger predation on yellow-bellied marmots
Climate change and the conservation of marmots
A test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis in four species of marmots
Gene expression shifts in yellow-bellied marmots prior to natal dispersal
The benefits of being dominant: Health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot
Ectoparasites, fitness, and social behaviour of yellow-bellied marmots
Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots
Social behavior and population dynamics of marmots
The yellow-bellied marmot and the evolution of polygamy
Individual differences in the behavior of juvenile yellow-bellied marmots
Factors affecting corticosteroid concentrations in yellow-bellied marmots
What is the sound of fear? Behavioral responses of white-crownded sparrows Zonotrichia leucophrys to synthesized nonlinear acoustic phenomena
Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species
Yellow-bellied marmot hiding time is sensitive to variation in costs
Reproductive energetics of adult male yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
The potential to encode sex, age, and individual identity in the alarm calls of three species of Marmotinae
The function of kin discrimination
Predicted fitness consequences of threat-sensitive hiding behavior
Patterns of parasite prevalence and individual infection in yellow-bellied marmots.
Fur color diversity in marmots
Ontogenetic variation of heritability and maternal effects in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls.
Detection, prevalence and phylogenetic relationships of <i>Demodex</i> spp and further skin prostigmata mites (Acari, Arachnida) in wild and domestic mammals
Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population
Sex differences in the play behavior of yearling yellow-bellied marmots
Yellow-bellied marmots as prey of coyotes
Parasite infection and host dynamics in a naturally fluctuating rodent population
Breeding bird density does not drive vocal individuality
Marmots do not consistently use their left eye to respond to an approaching threat but those that did fled sooner
Individual life histories: neither slow nor fast, just diverse
Social dynamics of mammals: reproductive success, kinship, and individual fitness
A critical evaluation of subjective ratings: unacquainted observers can reliably assess personality
The flush early and avoid the rush hypothesis holds after accounting for spontaneous behavior
Social dynamics of juvenile marmots: role of kinship and individual variability
Predation by badger on yellow-bellied marmot in Colorado
Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear: how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds
Marmots and coyotes: behavior of prey and predator
Human activity affects the perception of risk by mule deer
Inter-specific variation in avian responses to human disturbance
Diverse cressdnaviruses and an anellovirus identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots
Energy allocation by yellow-bellied marmots
Who pays? Intra- versus inter-generational costs of reproduction
Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments using microphone arrays: applications, technological considerations and prospectus
Ontogenetic and sex differences influence alarm call responses in mammals: A meta-analysis
Some quantitative aspects of the behavior of marmots
Cumulative adversity and survival in the wild
Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum
Inter- and intraspecific variation in the acoustic habitats of three marmot species
Determinants of multiple paternity in a fluctuating population of ground squirrels
Prey responses to predator’s sounds: a review and empirical study.
Avian Risk Assessment: Effects of perching height and detectability
Social behavior and space-use of ground-dwelling squirrel species with different levels of sociality
Do birds differentiate between white noise and deterministic chaos?
Multisensory perception in uncertain environments
Home-range size and exploratory excursions of adult, male yellow-bellied marmots
Optimal multisensory integration
Effects of intra-peritoneal transmitter implants on yellow-bellied marmots
Solutions for archiving data in long-term studies - a reply to Whitlock et al.
A trait-based approach to the evolution of complex coalitions in male mammals
The effect of hemosporidian infections on white-crowned sparrow singing behavior
Water budgets of montane-mesic and lowland-xeric populations of yellow-bellied marmots
Immune system activation affects song and territorial defense
Can rarefaction be used to estimate song repertoire size in birds?
Structure and location of burrows of yellow-bellied marmot
Detectability, philopatry, and the distribution of dispersal distances in vertebrates
Long-distance dispersal to the mining frontier in late 19th century Colorado
VoxNet: an interactive, rapidly-deployable acoustic monitoring platform
Archiving primary data: solutions for long-term studies.
Cannibalism among yellow-bellied marmots
Do female yellow-bellied marmots adjust the sex ratios of their offspring?
Scent-marking in the yellow-bellied marmot <i>Marmota flaviventris</i>
The annual cycle and fat storage in two populations of golden-mantled ground squirrels
Techniques for immobilizing and bleeding marmots and woodrats
Social mating system and sex-biased dispersal in mammals and birds: a phylogenetic analysis.
Intraventricular insulin reduces food intake and body weight of marmots during the summer feeding period
Enzyme polymorphism and biosystematics: the hypothesis of selective neutrality
Interment behavior in the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris)
Enzyme polymorphism and metabolism
First reports of turtle tracks from the Williams Fork Formation (‘Mesaverde’ Group), Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of western Colorado
Food selectivity by yellow-bellied marmots
Duplication and population dynamics shape historic patterns of selection and genetic variation at the major histocompatibility complex in rodents
Lumbricid Earthworm Populations in a Colorado Mountain River
Hadrosaur Locomotion and Herding Behavior: Evidence from Footprints in The Mesaverde Formation, Grand Mesa Coal Field, Colorado
Microdistributions, food resources and feeding habits of filter-feeding Trichoptera in the Upper Colorado River
Observations on the Ecology of the Gunnison Prairie Dog in Colorado
Food habits of two sympatric Colorado sciurids
Dawsonite in the Green River Formation of Colorado
Marmot Biology
Vocalizations of the long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata)
The effects of kidney structure and the annual cycle on water requirements in golden-mantled ground squirrels and chipmunks
Are white-crowned sparrow badges reliable signals?
Distance to a road is associated with reproductive success and physiological stress response in a migratory landbird
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Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity
The fate of natural populations is mediated by complex interactions among vital rates, which can vary within and among years. While the effects of ran...
Data from: Strong social relationships are associated with decreased longevity in a facultatively social mammal
Humans in strong social relationships are more likely to live longer because social relationships may buffer stressors and thus have protective effect...
Marmot capture history data and growing season length data
Seasonal environmental conditions shape the behavior and life history of virtually all organisms. Climate change is modifying these seasonal environme...
Data from: Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal
The cumulative cost of reproduction hypothesis predicts that reproductive costs accumulate over an individual’s reproductive lifespan. While short-ter...
Data from: A cost of being amicable in a hibernating marmot
Amicable social interactions can enhance fitness in many species, have negligible consequences for some, and reduce fitness in others. For yellow-bell...
R code for Demographic consequences of changing environmental periodicity
These R scripts contain the code to replicate the analyses performed in Demographic consequences of changing environmental periodicity , Ecology. Vita...
Data from: Individual life histories: Neither slow nor fast, just diverse
The slow-fast continuum is known to structure variation in life-history strategies across species. Within populations, it is also assumed to structure...
Data from: Age, state, environment and season dependence of senescence in body mass
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Relatedness matrix
This data file contains a matrix of genetic kinship for the 43 individual marmots analyzed in this study. Kinship was calculated as pair-wise relatedn...
Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure
Mass gain is an important fitness correlate for survival in highly seasonal species. While many physiological, genetic, life history, and environmenta...
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Life history consequences of climate change in hibernating mammals: A review
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Data from: No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite demonstrated survival costs in a polygynous rodent
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Trait data for the 43 individuals/RNA samples
This data file contains trait information concerning the 43 individual marmots, or their blood samples (one per individual), analyzed in this study. M...
Genetic basis of between-individual and within-individual variance of docility
Between-individual variation in phenotypes within a population is the basis of evolution. However, evolutionary and behavioural ecologists have mainly...
Pedigree
Pruned pedigree including only individuals with docility data and their ancestors.
Maternal survival costs in an asocial mammal: Data and analysis
Maternal characteristics, social dynamics, and environmental factors can all influence reproduction and survival as well as shape trade-offs that mi...
Docility data
Data including docility scores, trial number (scaled), day of the year (scaled), time of the day (0: AM; 1:PM), age (0:juveniles, 1: yearlings; 2:adul...
Supplementary material from "Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild"
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Data and Code for "Detecting context-dependence in the expression of life history tradeoffs"
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igraph for R: R interface of the igraph library for graph theory and network analysis
Testing Tweak tests that use the graph package.
UAV Imagery of Marmot Burrows in Colorado
UAV flights were conducted between August 26, 2024, and September 1, 2024, at and around the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in the East River Va...