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Vertebrate antipredator and communication studies

Part of: RMBL Marmot Project
Principal Investigator: Dan Blumstein
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Animal Behavior; Vertebrate biology; Other
Items: 199 (197 publications, 0 datasets, 2 documents)

Publications (197)

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Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles

2004Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.12.024
Article

The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

2007Advances in the Study of BehaviorDOI: 10.1016/s0065-3454(07)37008-3
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Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers

2004Proceedings of the Royal Society of London BDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2808
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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
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Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots

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

Can rarefaction be used to estimate song repertoire size in birds?

2011Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.3.300
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<i> Firmicutes </i> and <i> Bacteroidetes </i> explain mass gain variation in an obligate hibernator

2021bioRxivDOI: 10.1101/2021.09.24.461421
Publication

Social complexity but not the acoustic environment is responsible for the evolution of complex alarm communication

2003
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

Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality

2011Current BiologyDOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.01.051
Article

The sound of arousal: the addition of novel non-linearities increases responsiveness in marmot alarm calls

2009EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01691.x
Article

The structure, meaning and function of yellow-bellied marmot pup screams

2008Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.06.002
Article

Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear: how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds

2006Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.010
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Older mothers produce more successful daughters.

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

Heritability of anti-predatory traits: vigilance and locomotor performance in marmots

2010J Evolutionary BiologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01967.x
Article

Defining yellow-bellied marmot social groups using association indices

2003Oecologia Montana
Article

Genetic basis of between-individual and within-individual variance of docility

2017Journal of Evolutionary BiologyDOI: 10.1111/jeb.13048
Article

Predicted fitness consequences of threat-sensitive hiding behavior

2007Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm064
Article

Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots

2006Biology Letters
Chapter

Rodent societies

2007
Article

Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots

2025Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123250
Article

Inter-specific variation in avian responses to human disturbance

2005Journal of Applied EcologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01071.x
Article

Yellow-bellied marmot hiding time is sensitive to variation in costs

2005Canadian Journal of ZoologyDOI: 10.1139/z05-020
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Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places

2010EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01830.x
Article

The social microbiome: gut microbiome diversity and abundance are negatively associated with sociality in a wild mammal

2023Royal Society Open ScienceDOI: 10.1098/rsos.231305
Chapter

Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

2002
Article

Assessing the sensitivity of foraging and vigilance to internal state and environmental variables in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>).

2016Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Article

Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent

2019Hormones and behaviorDOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104577
Article

Multisensory perception in uncertain environments

2012Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr220
Article

Is the propensity to alarm-call heritable and related across multiple contexts?

2025Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123103
Article

Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?

2020Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa020
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Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

2012Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0221
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Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls

1997Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0285
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Automated wildlife monitoring using self-configuring sensor networks deployed in natural habitats

2007Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics
Article

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

1997Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0286
Article

Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations?

2008Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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The potential to encode sex, age, and individual identity in the alarm calls of three species of Marmotinae

2011NaturwissenschaftenDOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0757-9
Article

Microvirus Genomes Identified in Fecal Samples from Yellow - Bellied Marmots

2022Microbiology Resource Announcements
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Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance

2019Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.04.008
Article

Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots

2008EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01563.x
Article

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

2018Ecology LettersDOI: 10.1111/ele.13148
Article

Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance

2021Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arab016
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Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationships

2010Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009882107
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Ontogenetic and sex differences influence alarm call responses in mammals: A meta-analysis

2011EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01947.x
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Inter- and intraspecific variation in the acoustic habitats of three marmot species

1997EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00022.x
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Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls

1997American NaturalistDOI: 10.1086/286062
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Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent

2011EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01909.x
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Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant?

2017Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.10.010
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Optimal multisensory integration

2020Behavioral Ecology
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Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?

2017Ecological ModelingDOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.02.023

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Wildlife Impacts

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Wildlife 2000 Review