This table contains 37 years of demographic data for 12 sites. The trap record for each animal for each year the animal was present includes age, sex, locality, and reproductive status. Also included, when known, are changes in location, fate (predation death, dispersed), and genetic information (al

This table contains 36 years of demographic data for 12 sites. The trap record for each animal for each year the animal was present includes age, sex, locality, and reproductive status. Also included, when known, are changes in location, fate (predation death, dispersed), and genetic information (al

This study is the first to document the use of hydrodynamic cues by stream-dwelling predators for discrimination of prey from nonprey and provides a mechanism to explain selective predation by stoneflies on Baetis in nature.

Behavior of Baetis bicaudatus (Ephemeroptera; Baetidae) was video taped in a western Colorado, USA stream to identify the specific stimuli eliciting noncontact responses to predatory stoneflies (Kogotus modestus; Plecoptera; Perlodidae). In situ behavioral and feeding trial experiments were also con

Energy intake, daily energy expenditure (DEE), and energy available for production were determined for yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) at three study sites in the Elk Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Energy intake, estimated from tritiated-water turnover rates and the water and ener

C. Ley, W. B. Watt, Testing the `Mimicry' Explanation for the Colias `alba' Polymorphism: Palatability of Colias and Other Butterflies to Wild Bird Predators, Functional Ecology, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1989), pp. 183-192

Blood samples were obtained in the field by femoral vein puncture in bushy-tailed woodrats (Neotoma cinerea) and yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) that had been injected intramuscularly with ketamine hydrochloride. Dosages ranged from 50 mg/kg for marmots to 30 to 110 mg/kg for woodrats.

Yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) eat a wide variety of grasses, forbs, and seeds, but do not feed on all items in proportion to their abundance in the environment. In this study, relationships between the marmot diet and estimated protein, water, caloric value, relative biomass, and tox

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of circulating catecholamines and light on the daily melatonin rhythm in the marmot. Endogenous levels of circulating catecholamines and plasma melatonin were measured during arousal from hibernation in light and stuthes were performed on the circad

Abstract Kin discrimination should be a tactic in the fitness strategy of individuals. Two postulates derived from inclusive fitness theory that fitness benefits toward kin are correlated with degree of relatedness and that social behavior of members of a kin group is always cooperative are refuted

Investigation of this mating system in Epeerus longimanus, a mayfly of the western United States that forms swarms that are quite large, finds that swarm locations are not explainable as feeding or emergence sites, but they do correlate with landscape features.

We determined the distance travelled by drifting nymphs of the mayflies Baetis and Cinygmula to add to existing knowledge of factors influencing drift distance, and to investigate the influence of drift-exiting behavior upon drift magnitude and periodicity. Individuals were released into the water c

Five species of stoneflies (Zapada haysi, Plumiperla diversa, Taenionema pacificum, Isoperla petersoni, Arcynopteryx compacta) from the North Slope and Interior of Alaska were examined for seasonal patterns of emergence of adults and growth of nymphs. Generally growth was retarded during the winter