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Counting marmots…
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Research Plan
Vertebrate antipredator and communication studies
Part of:
RMBL Marmot Project
Principal Investigator:
Dan Blumstein
Status:
active
Field:
Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas:
Animal Behavior; Vertebrate biology; Other
Items:
199 (197 publications, 0 datasets, 2 documents)
Publications (197)
Article
Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles
2004
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.12.024
Article
The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication
2007
Advances in the Study of Behavior
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3454(07)37008-3
Article
Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers
2004
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2808
Article
Effect of predation risk on the presence and persistence of yellow-bellied marmot <i>(Marmota flaviventris)</i> colonies
2006
Journal of Zoology, London
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00098.x
Article
Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots
2008
Journal of Mammalogy
DOI: 10.1644/07-mamm-a-061r1.1
Article
Can rarefaction be used to estimate song repertoire size in birds?
2011
Current Zoology
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.3.300
Thesis
<i> Firmicutes </i> and <i> Bacteroidetes </i> explain mass gain variation in an obligate hibernator
2021
bioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.24.461421
Publication
Social complexity but not the acoustic environment is responsible for the evolution of complex alarm communication
2003
Article
Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation
2006
Journal of Animal Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01038.x
Article
Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality
2011
Current Biology
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.01.051
Article
The sound of arousal: the addition of novel non-linearities increases responsiveness in marmot alarm calls
2009
Ethology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01691.x
Article
The structure, meaning and function of yellow-bellied marmot pup screams
2008
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.06.002
Article
Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear: how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds
2006
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.010
Article
Older mothers produce more successful daughters.
2020
Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1908551117
Article
Heritability of anti-predatory traits: vigilance and locomotor performance in marmots
2010
J Evolutionary Biology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.01967.x
Article
Defining yellow-bellied marmot social groups using association indices
2003
Oecologia Montana
Article
Genetic basis of between-individual and within-individual variance of docility
2017
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13048
Article
Predicted fitness consequences of threat-sensitive hiding behavior
2007
Behavioral Ecology
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm064
Article
Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots
2006
Biology Letters
Chapter
Rodent societies
2007
Article
Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots
2025
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123250
Article
Inter-specific variation in avian responses to human disturbance
2005
Journal of Applied Ecology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01071.x
Article
Yellow-bellied marmot hiding time is sensitive to variation in costs
2005
Canadian Journal of Zoology
DOI: 10.1139/z05-020
Article
Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places
2010
Ethology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01830.x
Article
The social microbiome: gut microbiome diversity and abundance are negatively associated with sociality in a wild mammal
2023
Royal Society Open Science
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231305
Chapter
Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity
2002
Article
Assessing the sensitivity of foraging and vigilance to internal state and environmental variables in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>).
2016
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Article
Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent
2019
Hormones and behavior
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104577
Article
Multisensory perception in uncertain environments
2012
Behavioral Ecology
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arr220
Article
Is the propensity to alarm-call heritable and related across multiple contexts?
2025
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123103
Article
Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?
2020
Current Zoology
DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa020
Article
Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond
2012
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0221
Article
Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls
1997
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0285
Article
Automated wildlife monitoring using self-configuring sensor networks deployed in natural habitats
2007
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics
Article
Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness
1997
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0286
Article
Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations?
2008
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Article
The potential to encode sex, age, and individual identity in the alarm calls of three species of Marmotinae
2011
Naturwissenschaften
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0757-9
Article
Microvirus Genomes Identified in Fecal Samples from Yellow - Bellied Marmots
2022
Microbiology Resource Announcements
Article
Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance
2019
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.04.008
Article
Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots
2008
Ethology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01563.x
Article
Transient LTRE analysis reveals the demographic and trait-mediated processes that buffer population growth
2018
Ecology Letters
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13148
Article
Habituation or sensitization? Long-term responses of yellow-bellied marmots to human disturbance
2021
Behavioral Ecology
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arab016
Article
Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationships
2010
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009882107
Article
Ontogenetic and sex differences influence alarm call responses in mammals: A meta-analysis
2011
Ethology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01947.x
Article
Inter- and intraspecific variation in the acoustic habitats of three marmot species
1997
Ethology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00022.x
Article
Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls
1997
American Naturalist
DOI: 10.1086/286062
Article
Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent
2011
Ethology
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01909.x
Article
Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant?
2017
Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.10.010
Article
Optimal multisensory integration
2020
Behavioral Ecology
Article
Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?
2017
Ecological Modeling
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.02.023
Showing 50 of 197 publications
Documents (2)
Document
Wildlife Impacts
Document
Wildlife 2000 Review