A test of the social cohesion hypothesis: Interactive female marmots remain at home

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1669, 2009, Pages 3007-3012

  Blumstein, Daniel T ^a   Wey, Tina W ^a   Tang, Karisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Proximate causes; Social cohesion hypothesis; Yellow bellied marmot

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; NATAL DISPERSAL; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RODENT; SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIURIDAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

MARMOTA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS;

EID: 68249085006     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0703     Document Type: Article

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