Habitat Selection and Energetics of the Olympic Marmot
Wood WA. 1973. Habitat Selection and Energetics of the Olympic Marmot. Western Washington State College
Study to asses the feeding strategies that adapt the Olympic marmot to the short growing period of subalpine meadows and to determine it's energy requirements for this environment. Appendices include species list of plants consumed, and daily caloric values of food and fecal material. Study sites within Olympic National Park, WA. Contains original black and white photographs of study sites.
- Type
- Academic
- Authors
- Wood, W
- Date of Issue
- 1973
- Publisher
- Western Washington State College
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Dungeness River Watershed, Elwha River Watershed, Endemic, Food, Gray Wolf River Watershed, Habitat, Meadow, Morse Creek Watershed, Olympic marmot (Marmota olympus), Olympic National Park, Subalpine, Thesis