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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2014
Print publication year:
2014
Online ISBN:
9781107284272
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107284272
Subjects:
Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Ecology and Conservation
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Book description

Focusing on the physiological and behavioral factors that enable a species to live in a harsh seasonal environment, this book places the social biology of marmots in an environmental context. It draws on the results of a forty-year empirical study of the population biology of the yellow-bellied marmot near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in the Upper East River Valley in Colorado, USA. The text examines life-history features such as body-size, habitat use, environmental physiology, social dynamics, and kinship. Considerable new data analyses are integrated with material published over a fifty-year period, including extensive natural history observations, providing an essential foundation for integrating social and population processes. Finally, the results of research into the yellow-bellied marmot are related to major ecological and evolutionary theories, especially inclusive fitness and population regulation, making this a valuable resource for students and researchers in animal behavior, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, ecology and conservation.

Reviews

'Armitage … presents a lifetime thesis (22 chapters in six parts) incorporating forty years of fieldwork, highlighting the yellow-bellied marmot as a representative example among the better-studied species from North America to Russia.'

Dr Rajith Dissanayake Source: The Biologist

'This thought-provoking volume miraculously condenses more than 41 years of research on the evolution and ecology of not only the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) but incorporates the comparative biology of the other 14 species of marmots into only 400 pages of text.'

John L. Koprowski Source: The Quarterly Review of Biology

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