Notes and discussion: Female olympic marmots (Marmota olympus) reproduce in consecutive years

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 221-225

  Griffin, Suzanne Cox ^a   Taper, Mark L ^b   Mills, L Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INFANT FEEDING; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; WEANING;

MARMOTA; MARMOTA OLYMPUS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 34547749383     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2007)158[221:FOMMOR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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