Sociality, individual fitness and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 532-540

  Armitage, Kenneth B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

age structure; dispersal; matriline; population growth rate; reproductive suppression

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MARMOTA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MARMOTA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 84855909463     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05323.x     Document Type: Review

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