hibernation energetics

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Knowledge graph centered on hibernation energetics with 71 nodes and 161 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Marmota, Yellow-bellied Marmot, Crested Butte.

Definition

Ground squirrels metabolize fat reserves built up during previous foraging seasons, with high amounts of foraging ensuring enough fat storage levels for fitness and survival

Related Terms (12)

overwinteringfat reservesenergy depletionfat storageinter-torpor arousalshibernationobligate hibernatorclimatic effectsemergence behaviorgrowth rates

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mass gainearly season foraging

Publications (10)

article

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

2021Ecology and Evolution

student_paper

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

2021

thesis

Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes explain mass gain variation in an obligate hibernator

2021bioRxiv

student_paper

Effects of avalanches on rodent populations

2019

article

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

2018Journal of Zoology

article

Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots

2009Journal of Mammalogy

article

Weather influences on demography of the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris)

2005Journal of Zoology, London

article

Yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) hibernate socially

2004Journal of Mammalogy

thesis

hibernation energetics

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Definition

Related Terms (12)

Publications (10)

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

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

<i> Firmicutes </i> and <i> Bacteroidetes </i> explain mass gain variation in an obligate hibernator

Effects of avalanches on rodent populations

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

Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots

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

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

Related Concepts (10)

seasonal demography

reproductive competition

Petersen mark-recapture method

Survival-at-birth rates

aestivation

Microevolutionary adaptation

life-history trade-offs

phenological mismatch

phenotypic plasticity

climatological variability

Frequently Associated Species

Marmota

Yellow-bellied Marmot

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Callospermophilus lateralis

Perymiscus species

small mammals

Engelmann Spruce

Populus tremuloides

Microtus montanus

Marmota monax

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

Early season arboreal behaviour in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)