Daniel T. Blumstein

Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles

ORCID: 0000-0001-5793-9244

Works: 216 total (201 publications, 15 datasets, 0 documents)

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RMBL Marmot Project

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

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Article

Wild marmots’ social networks reveal controversial evolutionary theory in action

2025

The Conversation

Article

Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal

2025Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/cz/zoae058

Article

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

2025Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123105Cited 1 times

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Is early life adversity associated with adult stress in a wild rodent?

2025Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.71065

Article

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.3061Cited 4 times

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Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?

2025Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/araf105

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

2025Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/araf008

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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 SociobiologyDOI: 10.1007/s00265-025-03674-5

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Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change

2025PNAS NexusDOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf286Cited 2 times

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Costly calling: Marmots who alarm call at higher rates are less likely to survive the summer and live shorter lives

2024Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/cz/zoae060Cited 2 times

Article

Cumulative adversity and survival in the wild

2024Ecology LettersDOI: 10.1111/ele.14485Cited 5 times

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Extending the social cohesion hypothesis: is group social structure associated with dispersal in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer)?

2024Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/cz/zoae002Cited 1 times

Article

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

2024Journal of Animal EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14173Cited 8 times

Article

Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes contribute to mass gain variation in female obligate hibernators

2024Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyad097Cited 6 times

Article

Social control is associated with increased reproductive skew in a wild mammal

2024Biology LettersDOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0003Cited 3 times

Article

Differences in gut microbes across age and sex linked to metabolism and microbial stability in a wild hibernating mammal

2024Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.70519Cited 1 times

Article

Social security: Does social position influence flight initiation distance?

2024Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arad104

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Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal

2024Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyDOI: 10.1007/s00265-024-03472-5Cited 4 times

Article

METHODS: Validating an immunoassay to measure fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in yellow-bellied marmots

2024Comparative Biochem and Phys Part A: Mol and IntDOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2024.111738Cited 2 times

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

2023Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.05.013Cited 18 times

Article

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

2023Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arac102Cited 19 times

Article

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

2023Biology LettersDOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0511Cited 15 times

Article

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

2023Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.10780Cited 2 times

Article

Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity

2023EcologyDOI: 10.1002/ecy.3894Cited 18 times

Article

Take only pictures, leave only... Cameras influence marmot vigilance but not perceptions of risk

2023Journal of ZoologyDOI: 10.1111/jzo.13032Cited 4 times

Article

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

2023Proceedings of the Royal Society BDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2181Cited 50 times

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Agonistic and affiliative social relationships are associated with marmot docility but not boldness

2023Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.02.016Cited 5 times

Article

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

2023Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.04.013Cited 2 times

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

2023Royal Society Open ScienceDOI: 10.1098/rsos.231305Cited 21 times

Article

Differential response of three large mammal species to human recreation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA

2023Frontiers in Conservation ScienceDOI: 10.3389/fcosc.2023.1234157

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Individual life histories: neither slow nor fast, just diverse

2023Proceedings of the Royal Society BDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0511Cited 67 times

Article

DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits

2023ScienceDOI: 10.1126/science.abq5693Cited 124 times

Article

Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues

2023Nature AgingDOI: 10.1038/s43587-023-00462-6Cited 355 times

Article

Microvirus Genomes Identified in Fecal Samples from Yellow - Bellied Marmots

2022Microbiology Resource Announcements

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Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure

2022Behavioral Ecology

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Sex-specific reproductive strategies in wild yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer): senescence and genetic variance in annual reproductive success differ between the sexes

2022Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyDOI: 10.1007/s00265-022-03191-9Cited 9 times

Publication

Obituary: Kenneth Barclay Armitage (1925—2022)

2022Journal of Mammology

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Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots

2022Nature Ecology & EvolutionDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-526409/v1Cited 6 times

Article

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

2021Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.7304Cited 9 times

Article

How social behaviour and life-history traits change with age and in the year prior to death in female yellow-bellied marmots

2021Philosophical Transactions BDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0745Cited 26 times

Article

Diverse cressdnaviruses and an anellovirus identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots

2021VirologyDOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2020.12.017Cited 14 times

Article

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

2021Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arab016Cited 62 times

Article

Producer-scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots

2021Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.11.018Cited 13 times

Article

Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems

2021Animal CognitionDOI: 10.1007/s10071-020-01464-2Cited 11 times

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Empirical studies of escape behavior find mixed support for the race for life model

2021Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/cz/zoab062

Thesis

Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes explain mass gain variation in an obligate hibernator

2021bioRxivDOI: 10.1101/2021.09.24.461421Cited 2 times

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The benefits of being dominant: Health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot

2021Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/cz/zoab034Cited 8 times

Article

How do humans impact yellow-bellied marmots? An integrative analysis

2021Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceDOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2021.105495Cited 7 times

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.1918584117Cited 77 times

Article

Older mothers produce more successful daughters.

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of the United StatesDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1908551117Cited 35 times

Article

Optimal multisensory integration

2020Behavioral Ecology

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Heritable variation in the timing of emergence from hibernation

2020Evolutionary EcologyDOI: 10.1007/s10682-020-10060-2Cited 13 times

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

2020Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa020Cited 4 times

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

2020Ecological LettersDOI: 10.1111/ele.13459Cited 20 times

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More social female yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventer, have enhanced summer survival

2020Animal Behaviour

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

2020Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/araa013Cited 19 times

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Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls

2019Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.019Cited 7 times

Article

Parasites Are Associated With Noisy Alarm Calls

2019Front. Ecol. Evol.DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00028Cited 15 times

Article

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

2019Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.02.008Cited 16 times

Article

Transitivity and structural balance in marmot social networks

2019Behav Ecol SociobiolDOI: 10.1007/s00265-019-2699-3Cited 27 times

Article

Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent

2019Hormones and behaviorDOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104577Cited 16 times

Article

Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance

2019Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.04.008Cited 6 times

Article

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

2019Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/ary175Cited 8 times

Article

Marmots do not consistently use their left eye to respond to an approaching threat but those that did fled sooner

2018Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/cz/zoy003Cited 13 times

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

2018Proc. R. Soc. BDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1934Cited 76 times

Article

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

2018Ecology LettersDOI: 10.1111/ele.13148Cited 38 times

Article

Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal

2018Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.4597Cited 13 times

Article

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

2018Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1002/ece3.3787Cited 27 times

Article

Social Security: social relationship strength and connectedness influence how marmots respond to alarm calls

2017Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyDOI: 10.1007/s00265-017-2374-5Cited 15 times

Publication

Skiing for science

2017Science

Article

Do birds differentiate between white noise and deterministic chaos?

2017EthologyDOI: 10.1111/eth.12702Cited 13 times

Publication

Groundhog day is so silly. But as a groundhog scientist I love it anyway

2017

Article

Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant?

2017Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.10.010Cited 27 times

Article

Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?

2017Ecological ModelingDOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.02.023Cited 15 times

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

2017Hormones and BehaviorDOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.12.014Cited 17 times

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A cost of being amicable in a hibernating marmot.

2017Behavioral Ecology

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

2017Journal of Evolutionary BiologyDOI: 10.1111/jeb.13048Cited 36 times

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Oxytocin experiments shed light on mechanisms shaping prosocial and antisocial behaviors in non-human mammals

2017Integrative and Comparative Biology

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Fitness and hormonal correlates of social and ecological stressors of female yellow-bellied marmots.

2016Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.11.002Cited 29 times

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The effect of body size and habitat on the evolution of alarm vocalizations in rodents.

2016Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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

2016Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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Solutions for archiving data in long-term studies - a reply to Whitlock et al.

2016Trends in Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.004Cited 11 times

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Does locomotor ability influence flight initiation distance in yellow-bellied marmots?

2015EthologyDOI: 10.1111/eth.12351Cited 13 times

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Archiving primary data: solutions for long-term studies.

2015Trends in Ecology and EvolutionDOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.07.006Cited 129 times

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Are social attributes associated with alarm calling propensity?

2015Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru235Cited 39 times

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Group size affects social relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

2015Behavioral Ecology

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Do yellow-bellied marmots perceive enhanced predation risk when they are farther from safety?: an experimental study

2015Ethology

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Stress hormone metabolites predict overwinter survival in yellow-bellied marmots

2015Acta Ethologica

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Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots

2015Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyu006Cited 34 times

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What is the sound of fear? Behavioral responses of white-crownded sparrows Zonotrichia leucophrys to synthesized nonlinear acoustic phenomena

2014Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/czoolo/60.4.534Cited 38 times

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Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population

2014PLoS-ONEDOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092718Cited 10 times

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A critical evaluation of subjective ratings: unacquainted observers can reliably assess personality

2014Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/czoolo/60.2.162Cited 16 times

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Prey responses to predatorâ€™s sounds: a review and empirical study.

2014EthologyDOI: 10.1111/eth.12219Cited 104 times

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Environmental, social, morphological and behavioural constraints on opportunistic multiple paternity

2014Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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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 Ecology

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

2014Functional Ecology

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Human activity affects the perception of risk by mule deer

2014Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/czoolo/60.6.693Cited 30 times

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Coyotes, deer, and wildflowers: diverse evidence points to a trophic cascade

2014NaturwissenschaftenDOI: 10.1007/s00114-014-1172-4Cited 27 times

Article

The flush early and avoid the rush hypothesis holds after accounting for spontaneous behavior

2014Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru098Cited 20 times

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Yellow-bellied marmots: insights from an emergent view of sociality.

2013Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series BDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0349Cited 80 times

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Ontogenetic variation of heritability and maternal effects in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls.

2013Proceedings of the Royal Society BDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0176Cited 17 times

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Defensive and social aggression: repeatable but independent

2013Behavioral Ecology

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Early play may predict later dominance relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

2013Proceedings of the Royal Society BDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0485Cited 70 times

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Do marmots display a dear enemy phenomenon in response to anal gland secretions?

2013Journal of Zoology

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Are white-crowned sparrow badges reliable signals?

2013Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyDOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1468-3Cited 25 times

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Patterns of parasite prevalence and individual infection in yellow-bellied marmots.

2013Journal of ZoologyDOI: 10.1111/jzo.12076Cited 12 times

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Ontogeny and symmetry of social partner choice among free-living yellow-bellied marmots

2013Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.01.008Cited 22 times

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

2013Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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Social mating system and sex-biased dispersal in mammals and birds: a phylogenetic analysis.

2013PLOS ONEDOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057980Cited 148 times

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Detecting between-individual differences in hind-foot length in populations of wild animals

2013Canadian Journal of Zoology

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Development of boldness and docility in yellow-bellied marmots.

2013Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.09.016Cited 157 times

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How life history influences population dynamics in fluctuating environments.

2013American Naturalist

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

2012Biology Letters

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Breeding bird density does not drive vocal individuality

2012Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/czoolo/58.5.765Cited 10 times

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

2012Biology Letters

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Social attributes and associated performance measures in marmots: bigger male bullies and weakly affiliating females have higher annual reproductive success

2012Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyDOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1358-8Cited 101 times

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Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

2012Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0221Cited 149 times

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No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite survival costs in a polygynous rodent

2012Molecular Ecology

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Multisensory perception in uncertain environments

2012Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr220Cited 212 times

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

2012Journal of Animal Ecology

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Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) respond to yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) alarm calls

2012Ethology

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Masculinized female yellow-bellied marmots initiate more social interactions

2012Biology Letters

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

2012General and Comparative EndocrinologyDOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.06.015Cited 72 times

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

2012Biology Letters

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Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments using microphone arrays: applications, technological considerations and prospectus

2011Journal of Applied EcologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01993.xCited 638 times

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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.xCited 23 times

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

2011Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyDOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1162-xCited 47 times

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Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality

2011Current BiologyDOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.01.051Cited 137 times

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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/s00114-010-0757-9Cited 53 times

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

2011Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.3.300Cited 14 times

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Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent

2011EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01909.xCited 46 times

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Older mothers follow conservative strategies under predator pressure: The adaptive role of maternal glucocorticoids in yellow-bellied marmots

2011Hormones and Behavior

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Quantifying human disturbance on antipredator behavior and flush initiation distance in yellow-bellied marmots

2011Applied Animal Behaviour ScienceDOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.11.013Cited 75 times

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

2010J Evolutionary BiologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01967.xCited 88 times

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Immune system activation affects song and territorial defense

2010Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq054Cited 21 times

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Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationships

2010Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009882107Cited 107 times

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Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places

2010EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01830.xCited 27 times

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

2010Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.008Cited 159 times

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Applying the coalitionary-traits metric: sociality without cooperation in male yellow-bellied marmots

2010Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq094Cited 24 times

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

2010NatureDOI: 10.1038/nature09210Cited 681 times

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

2009Proceedings of the Royal SocietyDOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0703Cited 147 times

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

2009EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01691.xCited 144 times

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

2009Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.010Cited 50 times

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Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots

2009Journal of Mammalogy

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A trait-based approach to the evolution of complex coalitions in male mammals

2009Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp040Cited 56 times

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Peripheral obstructions influence marmot vigilance: integrating observational and experimental results

2009Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp104Cited 52 times

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

2009American NaturalistDOI: 10.1086/597225Cited 57 times

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An empirical study of collaborative acoustic source localization

2009J Sign Process Syst

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Natural security: a darwinian approach to a dangerous world

2008

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Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations?

2008Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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

2008Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.06.002Cited 76 times

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Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots

2008EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01563.xCited 33 times

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Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality

2008Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.020Cited 847 times

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Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots

2008Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.1644/07-mamm-a-061r1.1Cited 13 times

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VoxNet: an interactive, rapidly-deployable acoustic monitoring platform

2008ISPN 2008: Information Processing in Sensor NetworksDOI: 10.1109/ipsn.2008.45Cited 62 times

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Rodent societies

2007

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The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

2007Advances in the Study of BehaviorDOI: 10.1016/s0065-3454(07)37008-3Cited 92 times

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Rodent societies

2007

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Predicted fitness consequences of threat-sensitive hiding behavior

2007Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm064Cited 30 times

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The effect of hemosporidian infections on white-crowned sparrow singing behavior

2007EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01341.xCited 53 times

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Spatiotemporal variation in reproductive parameters of yellow-bellied marmots

2007OecologiaDOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0817-9Cited 29 times

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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

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Acoustic source localization using the acoustic ENSBox

2007

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An empirical study of acoustic source localization

2007

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Rodent societies

2007

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

2006Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.010Cited 489 times

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

2006Biology Letters

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

2006Journal of Zoology, LondonDOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00098.xCited 56 times

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Spatiotemporal variation in survival rates: implications for population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

2006EcologyDOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1027:svisri]2.0.co;2Cited 67 times

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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.xCited 43 times

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

2005Canadian Journal of ZoologyDOI: 10.1139/z05-020Cited 47 times

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Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

2005Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.10.001Cited 168 times

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Inter-specific variation in avian responses to human disturbance

2005Journal of Applied EcologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01071.xCited 281 times

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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.2004.2808Cited 164 times

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Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots

2004EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.01000.xCited 80 times

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Yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) hibernate socially

2004Journal of Mammalogy

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Avian Risk Assessment: Effects of perching height and detectability

2004EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.00970.xCited 80 times

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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.2003.12.024Cited 117 times

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Do individual differences influence flight initiation distance?

2004Journal of Wildlife ManagementDOI: 10.2193/0022-541x(2004)068[1124:didifi]2.0.co;2Cited 113 times

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

2003

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Defining yellow-bellied marmot social groups using association indices

2003Oecologia Montana

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Energetics of hibernating yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

2003Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A

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Early season arboreal behaviour in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

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Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

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Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

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Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity

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Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

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Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

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

Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots

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

The sound of fear is heritable

Wild marmots’ social networks reveal controversial evolutionary theory in action

Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal

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

Is early life adversity associated with adult stress in a wild rodent?

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?

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

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

Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change

Costly calling: Marmots who alarm call at higher rates are less likely to survive the summer and live shorter lives

Cumulative adversity and survival in the wild

Extending the social cohesion hypothesis: is group social structure associated with dispersal in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer)?

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

Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes contribute to mass gain variation in female obligate hibernators

Social control is associated with increased reproductive skew in a wild mammal

Differences in gut microbes across age and sex linked to metabolism and microbial stability in a wild hibernating mammal

Social security: Does social position influence flight initiation distance?

Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal

METHODS: Validating an immunoassay to measure fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in yellow-bellied marmots

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

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

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

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

Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity

Take only pictures, leave only... Cameras influence marmot vigilance but not perceptions of risk

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

Agonistic and affiliative social relationships are associated with marmot docility but not boldness

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

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

Differential response of three large mammal species to human recreation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA

Individual life histories: neither slow nor fast, just diverse

DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits

Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues

Microvirus Genomes Identified in Fecal Samples from Yellow - Bellied Marmots

Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure

Sex-specific reproductive strategies in wild yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer): senescence and genetic variance in annual reproductive success differ between the sexes

Obituary: Kenneth Barclay Armitage (1925—2022)

Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots

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

How social behaviour and life-history traits change with age and in the year prior to death in female yellow-bellied marmots

Diverse cressdnaviruses and an anellovirus identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots

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

Producer-scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots

Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems

Empirical studies of escape behavior find mixed support for the race for life model

Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes explain mass gain variation in an obligate hibernator

The benefits of being dominant: Health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot

How do humans impact yellow-bellied marmots? An integrative analysis

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

Older mothers produce more successful daughters.

Optimal multisensory integration

Heritable variation in the timing of emergence from hibernation

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

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

More social female yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventer, have enhanced summer survival

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

Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls

Parasites Are Associated With Noisy Alarm Calls

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

Transitivity and structural balance in marmot social networks

Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent

Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance

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

Marmots do not consistently use their left eye to respond to an approaching threat but those that did fled sooner

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

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

Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal

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

Social Security: social relationship strength and connectedness influence how marmots respond to alarm calls

Skiing for science

Do birds differentiate between white noise and deterministic chaos?