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Factors Affecting The Dispersal Of Yearling Yellow Bellied Marmots Marmota Flaviventris
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Book Synopsis Factors Affecting the Dispersal of Yearling Yellow Bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris) by : Jerry F. Downhower
Download or read book Factors Affecting the Dispersal of Yearling Yellow Bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris) written by Jerry F. Downhower and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marmot Biology by : Kenneth B. Armitage
Download or read book Marmot Biology written by Kenneth B. Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marmot Biology Sociality, Individual Fitness and Population Dynamics"--
Book Synopsis The Biology of the Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota Flaviventris) in Sagehen Creek Basin by : James Aubrey Nee
Download or read book The Biology of the Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota Flaviventris) in Sagehen Creek Basin written by James Aubrey Nee and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ecological Genetics of Dispersal and Mating System in Populations of Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris) by : Christian Hollace Floyd
Download or read book Ecological Genetics of Dispersal and Mating System in Populations of Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris) written by Christian Hollace Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Behavior, Foraging, and Reproduction in Female Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris). by : Elizabeth L. Stallman
Download or read book Social Behavior, Foraging, and Reproduction in Female Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris). written by Elizabeth L. Stallman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rodent Societies by : Jerry O. Wolff
Download or read book Rodent Societies written by Jerry O. Wolff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodent Societies synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents, providing a historical basis for comparative analyses. Subsequent sections focus on group-living rodents and characterize their reproductive behaviors, life histories and population ecology, genetics, neuroendocrine mechanisms, behavioral development, cognitive processes, communication mechanisms, cooperative and uncooperative behaviors, antipredator strategies, comparative socioecology, diseases, and conservation. Using the highly diverse and well-studied Rodentia as model systems to integrate a variety of research approaches and evolutionary theory into a unifying framework, Rodent Societies will appeal to a wide range of disciplines, both as a compendium of current research and as a stimulus for future collaborative and interdisciplinary investigations.
Book Synopsis Marmot Biology by : Kenneth B. Armitage
Download or read book Marmot Biology written by Kenneth B. Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Animal Dispersal written by N.C. Stenseth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4.1.1 Demographic significance Confined populations grow more rapidly than populations from which dispersal is permitted (Lidicker, 1975; Krebs, 1979; Tamarin et at., 1984), and demography in island populations where dispersal is restricted differs greatly from nearby mainland populations (Lidicker, 1973; Tamarin, 1977, 1978; Gliwicz, 1980), clearly demonstrating the demographic signi ficance of dispersal. The prevalence of dispersal in rapidly expanding populations is held to be the best evidence for presaturation dispersal. Because dispersal reduces the growth rate of source populations, it is generally believed that emigration is not balanced by immigration, and that mortality of emigrants occurs as a result of movement into a 'sink' of unfavourable habitat. If such dispersal is age- or sex-biased, the demo graphy of the population is markedly affected, as a consequence of differ ences in mortality in the dispersive sex or age class. Habitat heterogeneity consequently underlies this interpretation of dispersal and its demographic consequences, although the spatial variability of environments is rarely assessed in dispersal studies.
Book Synopsis Costs and Benefits of Sociality in Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris) by : Colleen Marie Lenihan
Download or read book Costs and Benefits of Sociality in Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventris) written by Colleen Marie Lenihan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Foraging and Nutritional Ecology of Yellow-bellied Marmots in the White Mountains of California by : Hannah V. Carey
Download or read book Foraging and Nutritional Ecology of Yellow-bellied Marmots in the White Mountains of California written by Hannah V. Carey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Estimating the Heritability of Female Dispersal in Yellow-bellied Marmots by : Megan Nicole Edic
Download or read book Estimating the Heritability of Female Dispersal in Yellow-bellied Marmots written by Megan Nicole Edic and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natal dispersal is the permanent movement of individuals from their natal home range to a new location for reproduction. Dispersal helps maintain genetic variation and is viewed as an adaptive behavior; however, the decision rules influencing dispersal may no longer be optimal in rapidly changing environments. Climate change creates mismatches between species' life history traits, decision rules, and the environment, and this gap may be enhanced in species whose habitats are especially sensitive to rapid change. At least two processes can permit flexible responses in a changing environment: phenotypic plasticity and/or possessing sufficient additive genetic variation to permit evolution. While numerous studies investigate species' plastic responses to altered environmental conditions, the potential to evolve when faced with long-term changes is often overlooked in ecological studies of dispersal. Here, we use the quantitative genetic mixed model, termed the 'animal model', to conduct a variance decomposition of female yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventer) natal dispersal. We found significant heritable variation in the propensity to disperse when using a 60-year data set, but our estimate was not substantially different from zero when we used a smaller 18-year data set that permitted us to account for known environmental effects that influence dispersal. Nevertheless, these findings illustrate the importance of phenotypic plasticity in dispersal decisions in this system and, overall, suggest that should yellow-bellied marmots experience a future mismatch with their environment, they have some additive genetic variation that may allow them to evolve a new optimal response.
Book Synopsis Annotated Bibliography of Colorado Vertebrate Zoology, 1776-1995 by : Richard G. Beidleman
Download or read book Annotated Bibliography of Colorado Vertebrate Zoology, 1776-1995 written by Richard G. Beidleman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation catalogues the writings on the diverse vertebrate species within Colorado's boundaries beginning with the Escalante Expedition, which skirted the western slope a century before Colorado's statehood. Because of its geographical location-between East and West, North and Southwest, its altitudinal range of more than 11,000 feet, and its consequent variety of ecosystems from desert shrub to alpine tundra, Colorado ranks high among the fifty states for its variety of vertebrates. With such an abundance of these vertebrates, biologists and observant laypersons have had much to write about. This comprehensive bibliography is divided into major sections: General Natural History, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals. Each taxonomic group has a general section, followed by listings at taxon levels down to alphabetically-arranged species. The bibliography is especially complete with respect to periodical literature through 1995. Colorado Vertebrate Zoology cites resources for studying both well-researched vertebrates and those needing more study.
Book Synopsis Spatial and Behavioral Foraging Patterns and Diet Selectivity in the Social Yellow Bellied Marmot by : Barbara Ann Frase
Download or read book Spatial and Behavioral Foraging Patterns and Diet Selectivity in the Social Yellow Bellied Marmot written by Barbara Ann Frase and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Male Social Behavior in a Facultatively Social Rodent, the Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota Flaviventris) by : Lucretia Elizabeth Olson
Download or read book Male Social Behavior in a Facultatively Social Rodent, the Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota Flaviventris) written by Lucretia Elizabeth Olson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Novel Gene Expression Shifts in Response to Complex Environmental Stimuli in a Wild Population of Yellow-Bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventer) by : Tiffany Christine Armenta
Download or read book Novel Gene Expression Shifts in Response to Complex Environmental Stimuli in a Wild Population of Yellow-Bellied Marmots (Marmota Flaviventer) written by Tiffany Christine Armenta and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene expression is an important mechanism that allows organisms to adapt to environmental stimuli. Recent advances in molecular techniques have enabled extensive research evaluating environmentally induced transcription rates across the genome in controlled laboratory conditions. However, relatively few studies have examined transcriptional responses to external changes in wild populations, where natural selection operates. For my dissertation, I aimed to evaluate how wild animals physiologically respond to various environmental stressors on the molecular level. In my first chapter, I provide an overview of my three empirical research chapters. In my second chapter, I evaluated gene expression changes in female yearling yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer) as they prepared to disperse from the natal colony. Dispersers exhibited significant increases in the expression of genes involved in metabolism, muscle function, and pathogen defense, providing support for somatic preparation for the upcoming risks involved with dispersal. In my third chapter, I focused on both male and female marmots to evaluate the impact of social status on gene expression variation in blood. Previous studies in controlled systems have identified a conserved transcriptional response to adversity (CTRA) where socially stressed individuals often exhibit chronic inflammation and reduced antiviral responses. I found that affiliative and agonistic social interactions influenced the inflammatory transcriptional response, but not the antiviral response. This suggests that inflammation is an evolutionarily conserved trait when dealing with social stress, but that the viral response may depend on the social structure of the species. Finally, in my fourth chapter, I examined the transcriptional response to predator pressure in this species. I identified predator-induced differential expression in several genetic pathways including heat shock proteins, metabolism, brain function, and glucocorticoid signaling. My dissertation demonstrated the ability to observe the molecular response to external stimulis in a wild mammal, which could prove to be a powerful method for studying the cellular stress response in natural populations.
