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Cynomys

Common names: prairie dog, prairie dogs, black-tailed prairie dog

Taxonomy: Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Sciuridae

Roles: study subject, managed species, habitat component

ITIS TSN: 180183

Synonyms: Cynomys spp.

External: RMBL Collections

Papers: 65 | Mentions: 98

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 79 entities)

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Publications (65)

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Causes and consequences of pre-hibernation body mass in golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2022Role: text_match

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Maternal survival costs in an asocial mammal

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel

2021Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

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The benefits of being dominant: Health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot

2021

Documents (28)

environmental assessment

BLM Wilderness: The Colorado Proposal

technical report

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

county plan

Development Impact Analysis: Gunnison-Crested Butte Corridor Comprehensive Plan, Land Use Alternatives

environmental assessment

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

federal proposed rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Gunnison's Prairie Dog as Threatened or Endangered

federal proposed rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Gunnison's Prairie Dog as an Endangered or Threatened Species

federal proposed rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-month Finding on a Petition To Change the Final Listing of the Distinct Population Segment of the Canada Lynx To Include New Mexico

federal proposed rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List the Gunnison's Prairie Dog as Threatened or Endangered

federal rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Western Distinct Population Segment of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

environmental assessment

Environmental Assessment of Ground Water Compliance at the Gunnison, CO UMTRA Project Site

Co-occurring Species

prairie dog

98 shared papers

Marmota flaviventris

Sciuridae66 shared papers

Marmota

Sciuridae57 shared papers

Callospermophilus lateralis

Sciuridae54 shared papers

Cynomys ludovicianus

Sciuridae52 shared papers

Spermophilus

Sciuridae41 shared papers

Cynomys gunnisoni

Sciuridae37 shared papers

Marmota marmota

Sciuridae32 shared papers

Urocitellus richardsonii

Sciuridae28 shared papers

Urocitellus columbianus

Sciuridae26 shared papers

Current Zoology

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Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2020Role: text_match

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Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?

2020Current ZoologyRole: text_match

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The Use of Conservation Genomics To Inform Law and Policy

2020UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona)Role: text_match

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Are Marmot Alarm Class Condition Dependent?

2019Role: text_match

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Comparative analysis of prairie dog colony spatial structure

2019CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder)Role: text_match

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Litter relocation behavior in two species of ground dwelling squirrels

2019EthologyRole: text_match

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

2018Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match

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Nesting aggregation as a determinant of brood parasitism in mason bees (Osmia spp.)

2016Role: text_match

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Reproductive Ecology of Female Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels

2016Role: text_match

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The effect of body size and habitat on the evolution of alarm vocalizations in rodents.

2016Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyRole: text_match

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

2014Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyRole: text_match

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Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

2012Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: study subject

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No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite survival costs in a polygynous rodent

2012Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

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Sociality, individual fitness and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

2012Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

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Causes and consequences of variation in social network attributes in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

2011Role: text_match

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Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent

2011EthologyRole: text_match

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Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality

2011Current BiologyRole: text_match

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

2011NaturwissenschaftenRole: text_match

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Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places

2010EthologyRole: text_match

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Decoding the information contained in the alarm calls of Gunnison prairie dogs.

2009The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaRole: text_match

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The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match

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Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality

2008Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

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Rodent societies

2007Role: text_match

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Rodent societies

2007Role: text_match

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The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

2007Advances in the Study of BehaviorRole: text_match

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Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots

2006Biology LettersRole: text_match

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Vegetation on Gunnison's Prairie Dog Colonies in Southwestern Colorado

2006Rangeland Ecology & ManagementRole: text_match

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Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

2005Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

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Invasive Linaria vulgaris, disturbance, and diversity: associations at multiple spatial scales in Colorado

2004Role: text_match

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Lifetime reproductive success of territorial yellow-bellied marmots

2004Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

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Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots

2004EthologyRole: text_match

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Dynamics of immigration into yellow-bellied marmot colonies

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

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Nesting activities of yellow-bellied marmots

2003International Network on MarmotsRole: text_match

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Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity

2002Role: text_match

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Sampling for Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) Among Prairie Dog Colonies on Ranches with Histories of Vesicular Stomatitis in New Mexico and Colorado

2002Journal of Medical EntomologyRole: text_match

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Status of White-Tailed and Gunison's Prairie Dogs

2002Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University)Role: text_match

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Social enhancement of fitness in yellow-bellied marmots

2000Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRole: text_match

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Cooperative breeding in marmots

1999OikosRole: text_match

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A 32-year demography of yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

1998J Zool LondonRole: text_match

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Life history consequences of social complexity: a comparative study of ground-dwelling sciurids

1998Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match

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Why do yellow-bellied marmots call?

1998Animal BehaviorRole: text_match

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

1997Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

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

1997Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

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

1997American NaturalistRole: text_match

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Growth and survival of juvenile yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

1996Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match

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Time-dependent averaging of foraging information in least chipmunks and golden-mantled ground squirrels

1994Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

student_paper

Female choice in true bugs (Homoptera: Miridae)

1991Role: text_match

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Pre-dispersal seed predation by Hylema (Delia) sp. (Diptera: Anthomyiidae): mechanisms and consequences of oviposition choice

1991Role: text_match

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Social behavior and space-use of ground-dwelling squirrel species with different levels of sociality

1991Ethology, Evolution and EcologyRole: text_match

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Hibernation in the Gunnison's prairie dog

1987Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match

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Effects of ant mounds on soil chemistry and vegetation patterns in a montane Colorado meadow

1983EcologyRole: text_match

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Sociality as a life-history tactic of ground squirrels

1981OecologiaRole: text_match

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Male behaviour and territoriality in the yellow-bellied marmot

1974Journal of Zoology, LondonRole: text_match

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An Epizootic of Plague in Gunnison's Prairie Dogs (Cynomys Gunnisoni) in South‐Central Colorado

1968EcologyRole: text_match

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Sounds of black-tailed, white-tailed, and Gunnison's prairie dogs

1966Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University)Role: text_match

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Social behaviour of a colony of the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris)

1962Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

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Observations on the Ecology of the Gunnison Prairie Dog in Colorado

1944Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match

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environmental assessment

Environmental Assessment of Provisions of a Water Supply System Gunnison, Colorado

environmental assessment

Environmental Assessment of Provisions of a Water Supply System Gunnison, Colorado

environmental assessment

Environmental Assessment of the Division of a Water Supply System Gunnison, Colorado

environmental assessment

Environmental Assessment of the Division of a Water Supply System Gunnison, Colorado

Document

Grazing in the National Forests — Ten Years After the Wilderness Act

Document

Grazing in the National Forests — Ten Years After the Wilderness Act

correspondence

Power Colo. R. Debt I

correspondence

Re: Opportunity for Solar District Hearing in Design and Annexation Commitment made to "Gunnison Rising" Development

federal register notice

Resource Protection Study, Record of Decision, Curecanti National Recreation Area, Colorado

environmental assessment

Sodium Mineral Development Environmental Assesment – Draft

environmental assessment

UMTRA Application for Land Use Change For Gunnison, CO without maps

management plan

United States Department of the Interior BLM Management Guidelines for National Resource Lands in the Gunnison Basin Resource Area

environmental assessment

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service: Public Hearing in the Matter of: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument Wilderness Reporter's Transcript

environmental assessment

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service: Public Hearing in the Matter of: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument Wilderness Reporter's Transcript

environmental assessment

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

water report

Water Rights 2001- Part 1

correspondence

Wildlife Commission Minutes

correspondence

Cynomys

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 79 entities)

Publications (65)

Dispersal of the golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis)

Is the propensity to alarm-call heritable and related across multiple contexts?

Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots

Dispersal of the golden-mantled ground squirrel

Causes and consequences of pre-hibernation body mass in golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)

Maternal survival costs in an asocial mammal

Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel

The benefits of being dominant: Health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot

Documents (28)

BLM Wilderness: The Colorado Proposal

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

Development Impact Analysis: Gunnison-Crested Butte Corridor Comprehensive Plan, Land Use Alternatives

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Gunnison's Prairie Dog as Threatened or Endangered

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Gunnison's Prairie Dog as an Endangered or Threatened Species

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-month Finding on a Petition To Change the Final Listing of the Distinct Population Segment of the Canada Lynx To Include New Mexico

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List the Gunnison's Prairie Dog as Threatened or Endangered

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Western Distinct Population Segment of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo

Environmental Assessment of Ground Water Compliance at the Gunnison, CO UMTRA Project Site

Co-occurring Species

prairie dog

Marmota flaviventris

Marmota

Callospermophilus lateralis

Cynomys ludovicianus

Spermophilus

Cynomys gunnisoni

Marmota marmota

Urocitellus richardsonii

Urocitellus columbianus

Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?

The Use of Conservation Genomics To Inform Law and Policy

Are Marmot Alarm Class Condition Dependent?

Comparative analysis of prairie dog colony spatial structure

Litter relocation behavior in two species of ground dwelling squirrels

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

Nesting aggregation as a determinant of brood parasitism in mason bees (<i>Osmia</i> spp.)

Reproductive Ecology of Female Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels

The effect of body size and habitat on the evolution of alarm vocalizations in rodents.

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

Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite survival costs in a polygynous rodent

Sociality, individual fitness and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

Causes and consequences of variation in social network attributes in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent

Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality

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

Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places

Decoding the information contained in the alarm calls of Gunnison prairie dogs.

The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality

Rodent societies

Rodent societies

The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots

Vegetation on Gunnison's Prairie Dog Colonies in Southwestern Colorado

Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

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

Lifetime reproductive success of territorial yellow-bellied marmots

Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots

Dynamics of immigration into yellow-bellied marmot colonies

Nesting activities of yellow-bellied marmots

Holarctic Marmots as a Factor of Biodiversity

Sampling for Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) Among Prairie Dog Colonies on Ranches with Histories of Vesicular Stomatitis in New Mexico and Colorado

Status of White-Tailed and Gunison's Prairie Dogs

Social enhancement of fitness in yellow-bellied marmots

Cooperative breeding in marmots

A 32-year demography of yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

Life history consequences of social complexity: a comparative study of ground-dwelling sciurids

Why do yellow-bellied marmots call?

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

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

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

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

Time-dependent averaging of foraging information in least chipmunks and golden-mantled ground squirrels

Female choice in true bugs (Homoptera: Miridae)