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hibernation — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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hibernation

Scope: population ecology

Papers: 4 | Mentions: 4

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 70 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on hibernation with 70 nodes and 154 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Marmota, Yellow-bellied Marmot, Engelmann Spruce.

Definition

A life-history trait that buffers marmots against climate change by allowing them to escape changes in climate and effectively expand their ecological niches

Publications (4)

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

2024Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Is Compensatory Growth Costly?

Climate change and the conservation of marmots

2013Natural Science

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

1996Canadian Journal of Zoology

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phenological mismatch

phenomenon2 shared papers

Chick survival rates

measurement1 shared paper

embeddedness

measurement1 shared paper

Community structure analysis

process1 shared paper

overwinter survival

phenomenon1 shared paper

Microevolutionary adaptation

process1 shared paper

life-history trade-offs

theory1 shared paper

phenotypic plasticity

phenomenon1 shared paper

betweenness centrality

metric1 shared paper

environment-sociality relationship

phenomenon1 shared paper

Frequently Associated Species

Marmota

Sciuridae4 papers

Yellow-bellied Marmot

Sciuridae4 papers

Lizards

Marmota olympus

Sciuridae2 papers

Marmota marmota

Sciuridae2 papers

Marmota monax

Sciuridae2 papers

Spermophilus

Sciuridae2 papers

Marmota caligata

Sciuridae2 papers

Callospermophilus lateralis

Sciuridae2 papers

Bolitotherus cornutus