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Lontra canadensis (coastal otters) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Lontra canadensis

Common names: coastal otters, otter, river otter

Taxonomy: Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Carnivora > Mustelidae

Roles: referenced comparison, study subject, managed species

ITIS TSN: 180549

Synonyms: coastal otters

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 6 | Mentions: 19

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Knowledge graph centered on Lontra canadensis with 76 nodes and 249 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Bureau of Land Management (implied via Federal Register), United States Department of the Interior, USDA Forest Service (Uncompahgre National Forest).

Publications (6)

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

2023Biology LettersRole: text_match

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

2022Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match

Social transmission of a novel foraging trait in yellow-bellied marmots

2019Role: text_match

A cost of being amicable in a hibernating marmot.

2017Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match

Do Social Interactions Decrease Basal Stress Levels In Breeding Female Yellow-Bellied Marmots?

2016Role: referenced comparison

A trait-based approach to the evolution of complex coalitions in male mammals

2009Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match

Documents (13)

technical report

An Integrated Wastewater Treatment and Reuse System to Enhance Wildlife and Other Estuarine Values

environmental assessment

BLM Wilderness: The Colorado Proposal

management plan

Beaver Re-introduction

technical report

Beaver in Western North America: An Annotated Bibliography 1966 to 1986

Colorado's Wildlife Company: Habitat Crisis

technical report

Community- Based Environmental Protection FY 1996 Progress Report

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Threatened Status for the Contiguous U.S. Distinct Population Segment of the Canada Lynx and Related Rule

federal proposed rule

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposal To List the Contiguous United States Distinct Population Segment of the Canada Lynx as a Threatened Species; and the Captive Population of Canada Lynx Within the Coterminous United States (lower 48 States) as Threatened Due to Similarity of Appearance, With a Special Rule

management plan

Environmental Agenda- Colorado 1989

General Critique of RARE II DES

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Co-occurring Species

fish and wildlife (general)

8 shared papers

fish and wildlife

8 shared papers

Wolverine

6 shared papers

Canis lupus

Canidae6 shared papers

Canis latrans

Canidae5 shared papers

Marmota

Sciuridae5 shared papers

Suricata suricatta

Herpestidae5 shared papers

Engelmann Spruce

Pinaceae5 shared papers

Yellow-bellied Marmot

Sciuridae5 shared papers

Selasphorus platycercus

Trochilidae4 shared papers

Living With Beavers

Newsletters from Folks United to Thwart Unsafe Radiation Emissions (FUTURE)

Sierra the Sierra Club Bulletin