Female Olympic Marmots (Marmota olympus) Reproduce in Consecutive Years
Griffin SC, Taper ML, Mills LS. 2007. Female Olympic Marmots (Marmota olympus) Reproduce in Consecutive Years. The American Midland Naturalist. 158(1):221-225
From the Abstract: "Olympic marmots (Marmota olympus) are reported to skip at least one year between reproductive efforts. We observed several female marmots weaning infants in consecutive years. There was no evidence that reproductive skipping was more common than annual reproduction. High spring food availability resulting from climate change may allow femailes to wean consecutive litters regularly."
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Griffin, Suzanne; Taper, Mark; Mills, L
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Dungeness River Watershed, Gray Wolf River Watershed, Morse Creek Watershed, Olympic marmot (Marmota olympus), Reproduction