Costs and benefits of sociality in yellow-bellied marmots (marmota flaviventris): Do noncolonial females have lower fitness?

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-189

  Lenihan, C ^a   Van Vuren, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fitness; Ground squirrel; Intraspecific variation; Predation; Sociality; Survival; Yellow bellied marmot

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0029906692     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1996.9522927     Document Type: Article

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