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mark-recapture (Sciuridae)

Subcategory: demographic monitoring
Standard reference: Armitage 1982, Armitage 2014
Papers: 163 | Mentions: 174

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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?

2025using
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Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesusing
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Dispersal of the golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2025Journal of Mammalogyusing
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Is early life adversity associated with adult stress in a wild rodent?

2025Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Is the propensity to alarm-call heritable and related across multiple contexts?

2025Animal Behaviourusing
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Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?

2025Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Busing
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Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots

2025Animal Behaviourusing
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Social security: individuals in socially reciprocal groups may perceive security from predators

2025Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal

2025Current Zoologyusing
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The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance

2025Animal Behaviourusing
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Conditional syndromes: Effect of human disturbance and age on the correlation between flight initiation distance and vigilance in marmots

2025Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyusing
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Sick and alone? Evaluating how immune response is associated with social network position in yellow-bellied marmots

2025using
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Examining the effects of environmental variation on sociality in yellow-bellied marmots utilizing a within-individual centering approach

2025using
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Does current weather or seasonality influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?

2024using
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Social Security: Do Individuals in Tight-Knit Social Groups Perceive Greater Security?

2024using
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Investigating the role of climate on juvenile Golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) growth and behavior

2024using
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Detecting context dependence in the expression of life history trade-offs

2024Journal of Animal Ecologyusing
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Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal

2024Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyusing
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Effects of trophic phenological synchrony or dyssynchrony on maternal investment of a small herbivorous mammal (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2024using
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The social microbiome: gut microbiome diversity and abundance are negatively associated with sociality in a wild mammal

2023Royal Society Open Scienceusing
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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

2023Biological Conservationusing
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Is flight initiation distance associated with longer-term survival in yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventer?

2023Animal Behaviourusing
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Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity

2023Ecologyusing
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Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal

2023Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal

2023Biology Lettersusing
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The timing of reproduction is responding plastically, not genetically, to climate change in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer)

2023Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Take only pictures, leave only... Cameras influence marmot vigilance but not perceptions of risk

2023Journal of Zoologyusing
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Agonistic and affiliative social relationships are associated with marmot docility but not boldness

2023Animal Behaviourusing
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The (surprising) importance of males in a matrilineal society: behavioural insights from a topological knockout study

2023Animal Behaviourusing
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Extending the social cohesion hypothesis: Is group cohesion associated with dispersal?

2023using
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Social security: Does social position influence flight initiation distance?

2023using
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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

2022Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyusing
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Early-life trade-offs in golden-mantled ground squirrel sociality and growth rate

2022using
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The social microbiome: the relationship between the microbiome and sociality in a wild mammal

2022using
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Is flight initiation distance associated with longer-term survival in yellow-bellied marmots (<i> Marmota flaviventer </i>)?

2022using
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Causes and consequences of pre-hibernation body mass in golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2022using
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Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots

2022Nature Ecology & Evolutionusing
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Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure

2022Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Maternal survival costs in an asocial mammal

2022Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences

2022Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Estimating the heritability of female dispersal in yellow-bellied marmots

2022using
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The Influence of Summer Precipitation and Temperature on Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel Pup Foraging.

2021using
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Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel

2021Animal Behaviourusing
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Bigger is not always better: Viability selection on body mass varies across life stages in a hibernating mammal

2021Ecology and Evolutionusing
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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

2021Philosophical Transactions Busing
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How do humans impact yellow-bellied marmots? An integrative analysis

2021Applied Animal Behaviour Scienceusing
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Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance

2021Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Heritability of Maternal Investment in Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

2020using
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Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal.

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of the United Statesusing
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Heritable variation in the timing of emergence from hibernation

2020Evolutionary Ecologyusing
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Age and location influence the costs of compensatory and accelerated growth in a hibernating mammal

2020Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Older mothers produce more successful daughters.

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of the United Statesusing
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More social female yellow-bellied marmots, <i>Marmota flaviventer</i>, have enhanced summer survival

2020Animal Behaviourusing
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Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?

2020Current Zoologyusing
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Assessing seasonal demographic covariation to understand environmental-change impacts on a hibernating mammal

2020Ecological Lettersusing
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Determining whether tourist abundance and reproductive status predispose golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>) to vehicular accidents

2020using
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How demographic factors affect ground squirrel susceptibility to motor vehicle collisions

2020using
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Density effects on juvenile female dispersal in a population of golden-mantled ground squirrels

2020using
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Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent

2019Hormones and behaviorusing
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Social transmission of a novel foraging trait in yellow-bellied marmots

2019using
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Are Marmot Alarm Class Condition Dependent?

2019using
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Mixed support for state maintaining risky personality traits in yellow-bellied marmots

2019Animal Behaviourusing
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Parasites Are Associated With Noisy Alarm Calls

2019Front. Ecol. Evol.using
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Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls

2019Animal Behaviourusing
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Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance

2019Animal Behaviourusing
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Gene expression shifts in yellow-bellied marmots prior to natal dispersal

2019Behavioral Ecologyusing
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More social female yellow-bellied marmots have enhanced summer survival

2018using
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An integrative study of marmot responses to ecotourism

2018using
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Strong social relationships are associated with decreased longevity in a facultatively social mammal

2018Proc. R. Soc. Busing
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Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal

2018Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Age, state, environment and season dependence of senescence in body mass

2018Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Transient LTRE analysis reveals the demographic and trait-mediated processes that buffer population growth

2018Ecology Lettersusing
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Developmental and social constraints on early reproduction in an asocial ground squirrel

2018Journal of Zoologyusing
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Is Compensatory Growth Costly?

2017using
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Can yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventer</i>) learn foraging innovations?

2017using
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Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant?

2017Animal Behaviourusing
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Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?

2017Ecological Modelingusing
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The effect of maternal glucocorticoid levels on juvenile docility in yellow-bellied marmots

2017Hormones and Behaviorusing
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Female kin density affects offspring sex ratio in an asocial mammal, the golden-mantled ground squirrell <i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>

2017Animal Behaviourusing
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A cost of being amicable in a hibernating marmot.

2017Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots.

2016Ethology, Ecology and Evolutionusing
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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>).

2016Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyusing
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Behavioral strategies of golden-mantled ground squirrels, <i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>

2016using
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Social security: Are socially connected individuals less vigilant?

2016using
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Does Stress Explain Variation in Marmot Parenting Behavior or Pup Survival?

2016using
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Group size affects social relationships in yellow-bellied marmots <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i>

2015Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Pattern and variation of the time budget of yellow-bellied marmots

2015Ethology, Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots

2015Journal of Mammalogyusing
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Stress hormone metabolites predict overwinter survival in yellow-bellied marmots

2015Acta Ethologicausing
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Exploring the behavioral rules influencing sociality in a facultatively social species, yellow-bellied marmots

2015using
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Yellow-bellied marmots do not compensate for a late start: the role of maternal investment in shaping life-history trajectories

2014Evolutionary Ecologyusing
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Long-term effects of litter sex ratio on female reproduction in two iteroparous mammals

2014Functional Ecologyusing
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Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population

2014PLoS-ONEusing
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Environmental, social, morphological and behavioural constraints on opportunistic multiple paternity

2014Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyusing
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Early play may predict later dominance relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

2013Proceedings of the Royal Society Busing
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Defensive and social aggression: repeatable but independent

2013Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild yellow-bellied marmots: experimental validation, individual differences and ecological correlates

2012General and Comparative Endocrinologyusing
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Parasite infection and host dynamics in a naturally fluctuating rodent population

2012Canadian Journal of Zoologyusing
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Development and structure of boldness and aggression in yellow-bellied marmots

2012using
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Functional relationships between early play behavior and adult dominance roles in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

2012using
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Sex differences in play behavior, personality, and philopatry in golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

2012using
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Litter sex composition affects life-history traits in yellow-bellied marmots

2012Journal of Animal Ecologyusing
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No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite survival costs in a polygynous rodent

2012Molecular Ecologyusing
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Sociality, individual fitness and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

2012Molecular Ecologyusing
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Scared and less noisy: glucocorticoids are associated with alarm call entropy

2012Biology Lettersusing
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Stochastic population dynamics of a montane ground-dwelling squirrel

2012PloS ONEusing
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Investigating patterns of juvenile dispersal in golden mantled ground squirrels, <i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>

2011using
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Bottlenecks and rescue effects in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Spermophilus lateralis</i>)

2011Conservation Geneticsusing
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Age and sex influence marmot antipredator behavior during periods of heightened risk

2011Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyusing
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Influence of population density and climate on the demography of subalpine golden-mantled ground squirrels

2011Journal of Mammalogyusing
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Proximate causes of natal dispersal in female yellow-bellied marmots, <i>Marmota flaviventris</i>

2011Ecologyusing
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Vigilance in the golden-mantled ground squirrel (<i>Spermophilus lateralis</i>): effect of age and distance to human-created structures

2010using
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Heritability of anti-predatory traits: vigilance and locomotor performance in marmots

2010J Evolutionary Biologyusing
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Applying the coalitionary-traits metric: sociality without cooperation in male yellow-bellied marmots

2010Behavioral Ecologyusing
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Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

2010Natureusing
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Social cohesion in yellow-bellied marmots is established through age and kin structuring

2010Animal Behaviourusing
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Effects of Burrow Distance on Anti-predator Vigilance in Foraging Yellow-Bellied Marmots

2010using
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Variation in vigilance of yellow-bellied marmots due to predator pressure

2009using
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Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

2009American Naturalistusing
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A test of the social cohesion hypothesis: interactive female marmots remain at home

2009Proceedings of the Royal Societyusing
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The sound of arousal: the addition of novel non-linearities increases responsiveness in marmot alarm calls

2009Ethologyusing
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A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators

2009Animal Behaviourusing
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Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots

2009Journal of Mammalogyusing
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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>)

2008using
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Time budget of yellow-bellied marmots at high and low elevations

2008using
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Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots

2008Ethologyusing
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The structure, meaning and function of yellow-bellied marmot pup screams

2008Animal Behaviourusing
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Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations?

2008Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyusing
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Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots

2008Journal of Mammalogyusing
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Indirect fitness benefits do not compensate for the loss of direct fitness in yellow-bellied marmots

2008Journal of Mammalogyusing
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The effects of altitude on the life history characteristics of yellow-bellied marmots <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i>

2007using
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Spatiotemporal variation in reproductive parameters of yellow-bellied marmots

2007Oecologiausing
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Age effects on yellow-bellied marmot <i> (Marmota flaviventris)</i> maximum running speed

2007using
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Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

2006Journal of Animal Ecologyusing
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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, Londonusing
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Spatiotemporal variation in survival rates: implications for population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

2006Ecologyusing
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Consistency of individual foraging and vigilance patterns in Yellow-Bellied marmots

2005using
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Weather influences on demography of the yellow-bellied marmot (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

2005Journal of Zoology, Londonusing
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Yellow-bellied marmot hiding time is sensitive to variation in costs

2005Canadian Journal of Zoologyusing
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The effect of body condition of yellow-bellied marmots on time allocation to vigilance and food acquisition while foraging

2004using
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Invasive <i>Linaria vulgaris</i>, disturbance, and diversity: associations at multiple spatial scales in Colorado

2004using
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Yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>) hibernate socially

2004Journal of Mammalogyusing
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Lifetime reproductive success of territorial yellow-bellied marmots

2004Oecologia Montanausing
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Yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics: demographic mechanisms of growth and decline

2004Ecologyusing
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Do individual differences influence flight initiation distance?

2004Journal of Wildlife Managementusing
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Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalisations?

2004using
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Sociality and individual fitness in yellow-bellied marmots: insights from a long-term study (1962-2001)

2003Oecologiausing
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The effect of food supplementation on juvenile growth and survival in Marmota flaviventris

2003Journal of Mammalogyusing
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Effects of food addition on life history of yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia Montanausing
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Adaptive strategies and diversity in marmots

2003using
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Adaptive strategies and diversity in marmots

2003using
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Adaptive strategies and diversity in marmots

2003using
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Reproductive competition in female yellow-bellied marmots

2003International Network on Marmotsusing
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Behavioral responses of yellow-bellied marmots to birds and mammals

2003Oecologia Montanausing
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Dynamics of immigration into yellow-bellied marmot colonies

2003Oecologia Montanausing
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Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia Montanausing
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Individual differences and reproductive success in yellow-bellied marmots

2003Ethology Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Reproductive strategies of yellow-bellied marmots: energy conservation and differences between the sexes

1998Journal of Mammalogyusing
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A 32-year demography of yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

1998J Zool Londonusing
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Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness

1997Animal Behaviourusing
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Biodiversity in marmots

1996using
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Growth and survival of juvenile yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

1996Canadian Journal of Zoologyusing
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Biodiversity in marmots

1996using