Marmota flaviventris

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Authors:

Frase, Barbara A.; Hoffmann, Robert S.

Source:

Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists, Volume 135, p.1-8 (1980)

Call Number:

A80FRA01IDUS

URL:

http://www.science.smith.edu/msi/pdf/i0076-3519-135-01-0001.pdf

Keywords:

Marmota flaviventris, yellow-bellied marmot

Abstract:

Marmota flaviventris, the yellow-bellied marmot, is closely related to the hoary marmot (M. caligata), and the ranges of the two species overlap in only a small area in northwestern Montana and western Washington. The yellow-bellied marmot is widely distributed in the western United States, extending as far north as south-central British Columbia and extreme southern Alberta. Southward, the species occurs from semi-desert in the Columbia Plateau, Snake River Plains, and Great Basin through woodland and forest openings to the alpine zone. The lower altitudinal limit of its range becomes progressively higher to the south, to the southern Sierra Nevada and White mountains of California and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico. Besides the species’ general characteristics and distribution, this account summarizes what is known by 1980 of its form and physiology, ontogeny and reproduction, ecology, behavior, and genetics.

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