Marmot Biology by Kenneth B. Armitage (.PDF)
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Marmot Biology: Sociality, Individual Fitness, and Population Dynamics by Kenneth B. Armitage
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Overview: Focusing on the physiological and behavioral factors that enable a species to live in a harsh seasonal environment, this book places the social biology of marmots in an environmental context. It draws on the results of a forty-year empirical study of the population biology of the yellow-bellied marmot near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in the Upper East River Valley in Colorado, USA. The text examines life-history features such as body-size, habitat use, environmental physiology, social dynamics, and kinship. Considerable new data analyses are integrated with material published over a fifty-year period, including extensive natural history observations, providing an essential foundation for integrating social and population processes.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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