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prairie dogs

Common names: prairie dog, prairie dogs
Taxonomy: Animalia
Roles: habitat component, study subject, managed species
Synonyms: Prairie Dog
External: iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 53 | Mentions: 71

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Knowledge graph centered on prairie dogs with 46 nodes and 147 connections. Top connected: Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a pro, Unknown, Marmota flaviventris, not mentioned, Spruce.

Publications (53)

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Dispersal of the golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2025Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match
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Is the propensity to alarm-call heritable and related across multiple contexts?

2025Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Society formation and maintenance in yellow-bellied marmots

2025Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Dispersal of the golden-mantled ground squirrel

2023Role: text_match
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Causes and consequences of pre-hibernation body mass in golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2022Role: text_match
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Maternal survival costs in an asocial mammal

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel

2021Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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The benefits of being dominant: Health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot

2021Current ZoologyRole: text_match
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Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

2020Role: text_match
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Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?

2020Current ZoologyRole: text_match
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Are Marmot Alarm Class Condition Dependent?

2019Role: text_match
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Litter relocation behavior in two species of ground dwelling squirrels

2019EthologyRole: text_match
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Developmental and social constraints on early reproduction in an asocial ground squirrel

2018Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match
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Nesting aggregation as a determinant of brood parasitism in mason bees (<i>Osmia</i> spp.)

2016Role: text_match
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Reproductive Ecology of Female Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels

2016Role: text_match
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The effect of body size and habitat on the evolution of alarm vocalizations in rodents.

2016Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyRole: text_match
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Environmental, social, morphological and behavioural constraints on opportunistic multiple paternity

2014Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyRole: text_match
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Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

2012Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
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No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite survival costs in a polygynous rodent

2012Molecular EcologyRole: text_match
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Sociality, individual fitness and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

2012Molecular EcologyRole: text_match
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Causes and consequences of variation in social network attributes in yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

2011Role: text_match
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Correlates and consequences of dominance in a social rodent

2011EthologyRole: text_match
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Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality

2011Current BiologyRole: text_match
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The potential to encode sex, age, and individual identity in the alarm calls of three species of Marmotinae

2011NaturwissenschaftenRole: text_match
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Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places

2010EthologyRole: text_match
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Decoding the information contained in the alarm calls of Gunnison prairie dogs.

2009The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match
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Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality

2008Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Rodent societies

2007Role: text_match
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Rodent societies

2007Role: text_match
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The evolution, function, and meaning of marmot alarm communication

2007Advances in the Study of BehaviorRole: text_match
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Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots

2006Biology LettersRole: text_match
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Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

2005Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Invasive <i>Linaria vulgaris</i>, disturbance, and diversity: associations at multiple spatial scales in Colorado

2004Role: text_match
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Lifetime reproductive success of territorial yellow-bellied marmots

2004Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match
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Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots

2004EthologyRole: text_match
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Dynamics of immigration into yellow-bellied marmot colonies

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match
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Nesting activities of yellow-bellied marmots

2003International Network on MarmotsRole: text_match
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Holarctic marmots as a factor of biodiversity

2002Role: text_match
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Social enhancement of fitness in yellow-bellied marmots

2000Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRole: text_match
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Cooperative breeding in marmots

1999OikosRole: text_match
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A 32-year demography of yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

1998J Zool LondonRole: text_match
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Life history consequences of social complexity: a comparative study of ground-dwelling sciurids

1998Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match
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Why do yellow-bellied marmots call?

1998Animal BehaviorRole: text_match
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Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: I. The meaning of situationally variable alarm calls

1997Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Alarm calling in yellow-bellied marmots: II. The importance of direct fitness

1997Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls

1997American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Growth and survival of juvenile yellow-bellied marmots (<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>)

1996Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match
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Female choice in true bugs (Homoptera: Miridae)

1991Role: text_match
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Pre-dispersal seed predation by <i>Hylema</i> (Delia) sp. (Diptera: Anthomyiidae): mechanisms and consequences of oviposition choice

1991Role: text_match
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Social behavior and space-use of ground-dwelling squirrel species with different levels of sociality

1991Ethology, Evolution and EcologyRole: text_match
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Hibernation in the Gunnison's prairie dog

1987Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match
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Observations on the Ecology of the Gunnison Prairie Dog in Colorado

1944Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match