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

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

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Social security: Does social position influence flight initiation distance?

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Defining yellow-bellied marmot social groups using association indices

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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Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

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

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Rodent societies

2007

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

2023Royal Society Open ScienceDOI: 10.1098/rsos.231305

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

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2019Hormones and behaviorDOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104577

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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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Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal

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

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2015Journal of MammalogyDOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyu006

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Yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics: demographic mechanisms of growth and decline

2004EcologyDOI: 10.1890/03-0513

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Optimal reproductive strategy in yellow-bellied marmots: Unveiling the consequences of age at first reproduction on survival and lifetime reproductive success

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

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

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The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

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Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots

2009Journal of Mammalogy

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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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Immune system activation affects song and territorial defense

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

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Wild marmots’ social networks reveal controversial evolutionary theory in action

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

Marmot gut microbiomes are stable against dietary variation

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

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

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

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

Longevity is heritable and negatively genetically correlated between the sexes in yellow-bellied marmots

Human activity affects the perception of risk by mule deer

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

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

Demographic consequences of changes in environmental periodicity

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

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

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

Social security: Does social position influence flight initiation distance?

Defining yellow-bellied marmot social groups using association indices

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

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

Rodent societies

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

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

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

Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent

Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

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

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

Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal

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

Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations?

The potential to encode sex, age, and individual identity in the alarm calls of three species of Marmotinae

Microvirus Genomes Identified in Fecal Samples from Yellow - Bellied Marmots

Ontogenetic and sex differences influence alarm call responses in mammals: A meta-analysis

Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots

Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?

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

An integrative study of marmot responses to ecotourism

Yellow-bellied marmot population dynamics: demographic mechanisms of growth and decline

Optimal reproductive strategy in yellow-bellied marmots: Unveiling the consequences of age at first reproduction on survival and lifetime reproductive success

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

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

The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

Social effects on emergence from hibernation in yellow-bellied marmots

Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers

Immune system activation affects song and territorial defense

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

Investigating the relationship between antipredator behavior and human disturbance using <scp>LiDAR</scp> imagery

Wild marmots’ social networks reveal controversial evolutionary theory in action

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Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmots 1965 and Continuing after 2001.

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Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Marmots

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

Marmot capture history data and growing season length data

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

Data from: No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite demonstrated survival costs in a polygynous rodent

Supplementary material from "Emergent social structure is typically not associated with survival in a facultatively social mammal"

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