Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 269-278

  Maldonado Chaparro, Adriana A ^a   Martin, Julien G A ^b   Armitage, Kenneth B ^c   Oli, Madan K ^d   Blumstein, Daniel T ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental change; individual variation; life history traits; phenotypic plasticity; yellow bellied marmots

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT;

MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS;

EID: 84929074094     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyu006     Document Type: Article

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