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mark-recapture (Sciuridae)
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Description
A 20-year longitudinal study tracking individually marked female marmots through live-trapping, unique marking, and behavioral observations to quantify social relationships and lifetime fitness. Uses standardized mark-recapture techniques with genetic confirmation of maternity.
Typical Equipment
- live traps
- ear tags
- Nyzanol dye
- binoculars
- 15x35x spotting scopes
Output Measurements
- lifetime reproductive success
- longevity
- social network positions
- capture histories
Papers Using This Protocol (163)
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Is social plasticity good? Does lifetime social variation enhance LRS and longevity in yellow-bellied marmots?
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Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild
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Dispersal of the golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis)
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Is early life adversity associated with adult stress in a wild rodent?
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Is the propensity to alarm-call heritable and related across multiple contexts?
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Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?
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Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots
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Social security: individuals in socially reciprocal groups may perceive security from predators
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Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal
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The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance
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Conditional syndromes: Effect of human disturbance and age on the correlation between flight initiation distance and vigilance in marmots
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Sick and alone? Evaluating how immune response is associated with social network position in yellow-bellied marmots
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Examining the effects of environmental variation on sociality in yellow-bellied marmots utilizing a within-individual centering approach
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Does current weather or seasonality influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?
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Social Security: Do Individuals in Tight-Knit Social Groups Perceive Greater Security?
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Investigating the role of climate on juvenile Golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) growth and behavior
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Detecting context dependence in the expression of life history trade-offs
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Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal
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Effects of trophic phenological synchrony or dyssynchrony on maternal investment of a small herbivorous mammal (Callospermophilus lateralis)
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The social microbiome: gut microbiome diversity and abundance are negatively associated with sociality in a wild mammal
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Daily roadkill monitoring and long-term population census reveal female-biased mortality for a small mammal along a wildland-urban interface
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Is flight initiation distance associated with longer-term survival in yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventer?
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Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity
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Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal
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Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal
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The timing of reproduction is responding plastically, not genetically, to climate change in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer)
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Take only pictures, leave only... Cameras influence marmot vigilance but not perceptions of risk
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Agonistic and affiliative social relationships are associated with marmot docility but not boldness
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The (surprising) importance of males in a matrilineal society: behavioural insights from a topological knockout study
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Extending the social cohesion hypothesis: Is group cohesion associated with dispersal?
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Social security: Does social position influence flight initiation distance?
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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
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Early-life trade-offs in golden-mantled ground squirrel sociality and growth rate
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The social microbiome: the relationship between the microbiome and sociality in a wild mammal
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Is flight initiation distance associated with longer-term survival in yellow-bellied marmots (<i> Marmota flaviventer </i>)?
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Causes and consequences of pre-hibernation body mass in golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)
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Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots
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Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure
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Maternal survival costs in an asocial mammal
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Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences
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Estimating the heritability of female dispersal in yellow-bellied marmots
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The Influence of Summer Precipitation and Temperature on Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel Pup Foraging.
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Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel
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Bigger is not always better: Viability selection on body mass varies across life stages in a hibernating mammal
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How social behaviour and life-history traits change with age and in the year prior to death in female yellow-bellied marmots
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How do humans impact yellow-bellied marmots? An integrative analysis
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Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance
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Heritability of Maternal Investment in Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)
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Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal.
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Heritable variation in the timing of emergence from hibernation
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Age and location influence the costs of compensatory and accelerated growth in a hibernating mammal
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Older mothers produce more successful daughters.
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More social female yellow-bellied marmots, <i>Marmota flaviventer</i>, have enhanced summer survival
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Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?
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Assessing seasonal demographic covariation to understand environmental-change impacts on a hibernating mammal
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Determining whether tourist abundance and reproductive status predispose golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>) to vehicular accidents
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How demographic factors affect ground squirrel susceptibility to motor vehicle collisions
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Density effects on juvenile female dispersal in a population of golden-mantled ground squirrels
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Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent
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Social transmission of a novel foraging trait in yellow-bellied marmots
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Are Marmot Alarm Class Condition Dependent?
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Mixed support for state maintaining risky personality traits in yellow-bellied marmots
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Parasites Are Associated With Noisy Alarm Calls
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Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls
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Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance
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Gene expression shifts in yellow-bellied marmots prior to natal dispersal
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More social female yellow-bellied marmots have enhanced summer survival
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An integrative study of marmot responses to ecotourism
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Strong social relationships are associated with decreased longevity in a facultatively social mammal
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Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal
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Age, state, environment and season dependence of senescence in body mass
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Transient LTRE analysis reveals the demographic and trait-mediated processes that buffer population growth
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Developmental and social constraints on early reproduction in an asocial ground squirrel
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Is Compensatory Growth Costly?
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Can yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventer</i>) learn foraging innovations?
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Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant?
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Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?
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The effect of maternal glucocorticoid levels on juvenile docility in yellow-bellied marmots
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Female kin density affects offspring sex ratio in an asocial mammal, the golden-mantled ground squirrell <i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>
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A cost of being amicable in a hibernating marmot.
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Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots.
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Assessing the sensitivity of foraging and vigilance to internal state and environmental variables in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>).
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Behavioral strategies of golden-mantled ground squirrels, <i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>
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Social security: Are socially connected individuals less vigilant?
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Does Stress Explain Variation in Marmot Parenting Behavior or Pup Survival?
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Group size affects social relationships in yellow-bellied marmots <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i>
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Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots
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Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots
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Stress hormone metabolites predict overwinter survival in yellow-bellied marmots
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Exploring the behavioral rules influencing sociality in a facultatively social species, yellow-bellied marmots
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Yellow-bellied marmots do not compensate for a late start: the role of maternal investment in shaping life-history trajectories
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Long-term effects of litter sex ratio on female reproduction in two iteroparous mammals
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Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population
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Environmental, social, morphological and behavioural constraints on opportunistic multiple paternity
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Early play may predict later dominance relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
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Defensive and social aggression: repeatable but independent
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Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild yellow-bellied marmots: experimental validation, individual differences and ecological correlates
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Parasite infection and host dynamics in a naturally fluctuating rodent population
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Development and structure of boldness and aggression in yellow-bellied marmots
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Functional relationships between early play behavior and adult dominance roles in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
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Sex differences in play behavior, personality, and philopatry in golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)
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Litter sex composition affects life-history traits in yellow-bellied marmots
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No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite survival costs in a polygynous rodent
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Sociality, individual fitness and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots
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Scared and less noisy: glucocorticoids are associated with alarm call entropy
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Stochastic population dynamics of a montane ground-dwelling squirrel
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Investigating patterns of juvenile dispersal in golden mantled ground squirrels, <i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>
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Bottlenecks and rescue effects in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Spermophilus lateralis</i>)
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Age and sex influence marmot antipredator behavior during periods of heightened risk
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Influence of population density and climate on the demography of subalpine golden-mantled ground squirrels
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Proximate causes of natal dispersal in female yellow-bellied marmots, <i>Marmota flaviventris</i>
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Vigilance in the golden-mantled ground squirrel (<i>Spermophilus lateralis</i>): effect of age and distance to human-created structures
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Heritability of anti-predatory traits: vigilance and locomotor performance in marmots
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Applying the coalitionary-traits metric: sociality without cooperation in male yellow-bellied marmots
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Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change
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Social cohesion in yellow-bellied marmots is established through age and kin structuring
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Effects of Burrow Distance on Anti-predator Vigilance in Foraging Yellow-Bellied Marmots
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Variation in vigilance of yellow-bellied marmots due to predator pressure
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Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation
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A test of the social cohesion hypothesis: interactive female marmots remain at home
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The sound of arousal: the addition of novel non-linearities increases responsiveness in marmot alarm calls
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A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators
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Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots
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The importance of parasitism and body condition in explaining variation in anti-predator vigilance in the yellow bellied marmot (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
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Time budget of yellow-bellied marmots at high and low elevations
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Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots
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The structure, meaning and function of yellow-bellied marmot pup screams
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Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations?
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Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots
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Indirect fitness benefits do not compensate for the loss of direct fitness in yellow-bellied marmots
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The effects of altitude on the life history characteristics of yellow-bellied marmots <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i>
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Spatiotemporal variation in reproductive parameters of yellow-bellied marmots
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Age effects on yellow-bellied marmot <i> (Marmota flaviventris)</i> maximum running speed
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Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation
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Effect of predation risk on the presence and persistence of yellow-bellied marmot <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i> colonies
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Spatiotemporal variation in survival rates: implications for population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots
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Consistency of individual foraging and vigilance patterns in Yellow-Bellied marmots
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Weather influences on demography of the yellow-bellied marmot (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
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Yellow-bellied marmot hiding time is sensitive to variation in costs
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The effect of body condition of yellow-bellied marmots on time allocation to vigilance and food acquisition while foraging
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Invasive <i>Linaria vulgaris</i>, disturbance, and diversity: associations at multiple spatial scales in Colorado
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Yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>) hibernate socially
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Lifetime reproductive success of territorial yellow-bellied marmots
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Yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics: demographic mechanisms of growth and decline
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Do individual differences influence flight initiation distance?
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Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalisations?
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Sociality and individual fitness in yellow-bellied marmots: insights from a long-term study (1962-2001)
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The effect of food supplementation on juvenile growth and survival in Marmota flaviventris
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Effects of food addition on life history of yellow-bellied marmots
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Adaptive strategies and diversity in marmots
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Adaptive strategies and diversity in marmots
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Adaptive strategies and diversity in marmots
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Reproductive competition in female yellow-bellied marmots
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Behavioral responses of yellow-bellied marmots to birds and mammals
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Dynamics of immigration into yellow-bellied marmot colonies
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Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots
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Individual differences and reproductive success in yellow-bellied marmots
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Reproductive strategies of yellow-bellied marmots: energy conservation and differences between the sexes
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A 32-year demography of yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
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Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness
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Biodiversity in marmots
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Growth and survival of juvenile yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)
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