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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.2003.12.024

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The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

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

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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.2004.2808

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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.x

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

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

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2011Current ZoologyDOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.3.300

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Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes explain mass gain variation in an obligate hibernator

2021bioRxivDOI: 10.1101/2021.09.24.461421

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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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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.x

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2011Current BiologyDOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.01.051

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2006Animal BehaviourDOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.010

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Older mothers produce more successful daughters.

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

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Stress hormone metabolites predict overwinter survival in yellow-bellied marmots

2015Acta Ethologica

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2003Oecologia Montana

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

2017Journal of Evolutionary BiologyDOI: 10.1111/jeb.13048

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Predicted fitness consequences of threat-sensitive hiding behavior

2007Behavioral EcologyDOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm064

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Rodent societies

2007

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Inter-specific variation in avian responses to human disturbance

2005Journal of Applied EcologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01071.x

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

2005Canadian Journal of ZoologyDOI: 10.1139/z05-020

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2010EthologyDOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01830.x

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Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity

2002

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

2009American NaturalistDOI: 10.1086/597225

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

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Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls

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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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Masculinized female yellow-bellied marmots initiate more social interactions

2012Biology Letters

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

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2017Ecological ModelingDOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.02.023

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Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles

The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers

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

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

Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots

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

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

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

Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality

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

Older mothers produce more successful daughters.

Obituary: Kenneth Barclay Armitage (1925—2022)

Stress hormone metabolites predict overwinter survival in yellow-bellied marmots

Defining yellow-bellied marmot social groups using association indices

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

Predicted fitness consequences of threat-sensitive hiding behavior

Rodent societies

Inter-specific variation in avian responses to human disturbance

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

Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places

Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity

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

Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls

Automated wildlife monitoring using self-configuring sensor networks deployed in natural habitats

Masculinized female yellow-bellied marmots initiate more social interactions

Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness

Microvirus Genomes Identified in Fecal Samples from Yellow - Bellied Marmots

Olfactory predator discrimination in yellow-bellied marmots

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

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

Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationships

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild

Inter- and intraspecific variation in the acoustic habitats of three marmot species

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

Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls

Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent

Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant?

Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?

Social and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots: results from long-term research

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

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

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

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

Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots

Immune system activation affects song and territorial defense

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

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

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