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RMBL Marmot Project

Principal Investigator: Dan Blumstein, Kenneth Armitage
Status: ongoing
Items: 175 (153 publications, 21 datasets, 1 documents)

Description

Long-term study of yellow-bellied marmots. Ongoing since 1962.

Research Plans (2)

Research Plan

The marmots of RMBL

PI: Dan BlumsteinEcology and Evolutionary biology
Research Plan

Vertebrate antipredator and communication studies

PI: Dan BlumsteinEcology and Evolutionary biology

Publications (153)

Article

Demography of yellow-bellied marmot populations

1974Ecology
Article

Social and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots: results from long-term research

1991Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsDOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.22.1.379
Chapter

Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

2002
Chapter

Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity

2002
Article

The evolution, ecology, and systematics of marmots

2000Oecologia Montana
Article

Dispersal of yearling yellow bellied marmots <i>Marmota flaviventris</i>

1981Animal Behaviour
Article

Scent-marking by yellow-bellied marmots

1976Journal of Mammalogy
Book

Marmot Biology. Sociality, Individual Fitness, and Population Dynamics

2014
Article

Time and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots

1994Ibex J.M.E.
Chapter

Adaptive strategies and diversity in marmots

2003
Article

Reproductive success of colonial and noncolonial female yellow-bellied marmots

1994Journal of Mammalogy
Chapter

Actual Problems of Marmots [sic] Investigation

1994
Chapter

Actual Problems of Marmots [sic] Investigation

1994
Article

Cannibalism among yellow-bellied marmots

1979Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.2307/1379774
Article

Some quantitative aspects of the behavior of marmots

1972Transactions of the Kansas Academy of ScienceDOI: 10.2307/3627063
Article

Thermal Influences on the Activity and Energetics of Yellow-Bellied Marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

1990Physiological Zoology
Article

Behavioral ecology of alpine yellow-bellied marmots

1979Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1007/bf00293302
Article

Older mothers produce more successful daughters.

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of the United StatesDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1908551117
Article

Transient LTRE analysis reveals the demographic and trait-mediated processes that buffer population growth

2018Ecology LettersDOI: 10.1111/ele.13148
Article

Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots

2008Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.1644/07-mamm-a-061r1.1
Article

Effect of predation risk on the presence and persistence of yellow-bellied marmot <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i> colonies

2006Journal of Zoology, LondonDOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00098.x
Article

Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

2006Journal of Animal EcologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01038.x
Article

Yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics: demographic mechanisms of growth and decline

2004EcologyDOI: 10.1890/03-0513
Chapter

Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

2002
Article

Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species

2000Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceDOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.4.1630
Article

Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls

1997American NaturalistDOI: 10.1086/286062
Article

Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls

1997Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0285
Article

Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness

1997Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0286
Chapter

Biodiversity in marmots

1996
Article

Marmots and coyotes: behavior of prey and predator

1982Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.2307/1380453
Article

Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity

2023EcologyDOI: 10.1002/ecy.3894
Article

Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal.

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of the United StatesDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1918584117
Article

Assessing seasonal demographic covariation to understand environmental-change impacts on a hibernating mammal

2020Ecological LettersDOI: 10.1111/ele.13459
Article

Litter relocation behavior in two species of ground dwelling squirrels

2019EthologyDOI: 10.1111/eth.12979
Article

Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal

2018Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.4597
Article

Age, state, environment and season dependence of senescence in body mass

2018Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.3787
Article

Hibernation as a major determinant of life-history traits in marmots

2017Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw159
Article

Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots.

2016Ethology, Ecology and Evolution
Article

Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots

2015Ethology, Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1080/03949370.2015.1059894
Article

Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots

2015Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyu006
Article

Climate change and the conservation of marmots

2013Natural ScienceDOI: 10.4236/ns.2013.55a005
Article

Estimating the effect of temporal autocorrelated environments on the demography of density-independent age-structured populations

2013Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Article

How life history influences population dynamics in fluctuating environments.

2013American Naturalist
Article

Sociality, individual fitness and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

2012Molecular Ecology
Article

Proximate causes of natal dispersal in female yellow-bellied marmots, <i>Marmota flaviventris</i>

2011Ecology
Chapter

The Ecology of Place

2011
Article

Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

2010NatureDOI: 10.1038/nature09210
Article

Fur color diversity in marmots

2009Ethology, Ecology, & EvolutionDOI: 10.1080/08927014.2009.9522474
Article

Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

2009American NaturalistDOI: 10.1086/597225
Article

Phylogeny and patterns of energy conservation in marmots

2008Molecules to Migration: The Pressures of Life

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Datasets (21)

Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.38
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.40
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.41
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.39
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.42
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmots 1965 and Continuing after 2001.

2020DOI: 10.5063/AA/bowdish.182.16
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.31
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.32
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.30
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.11
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.14
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.10
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.9
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.8
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.17
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.16
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.15
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.12
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.20
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.13
Dataset

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

2006DOI: 10.5063/aa/bowdish.131.1

Documents (1)

Document

Prospects The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory at Gothic