Long-term field studies on rodents

The modulating role of group stability on fitness effects of group size is different in females and males of a communally rearing rodent

(2016) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Kin effects on energy allocation in group-living ground squirrels

(2016) Vincent A. Viblanc et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Basal blood glucose concentration in free-living striped mice is influenced by food availability, ambient temperature and social tactic

(2015) C. Schradin et al.   Biology Letters

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Environmentally Forced Zoonotic Disease Emergence: Sin Nombre Hantavirus

(2015) Scott Carver et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Energetic compensation is historically contingent and not supported for small mammals in South American or Asian deserts

(2015) Douglas A. Kelt et al.   ECOLOGY

Alternative reproductive tactics in female striped mice: Solitary breeders have lower corticosterone levels than communal breeders

(2015) Davina L. Hill et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Octodon deguskin and social structure

(2015) Garrett T. Davis et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

The roles of community diversity and contact rates on pathogen prevalence

(2015) M. Denise Dearing et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Arctic ground squirrel population collapse in the boreal forests of the Southern Yukon

(2015) Jeffery R. Werner et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Equipped for Life in the Boreal Forest: The Role of the Stress Axis in Mammals

(2014) Rudy Boonstra et al.   ARCTIC

Mean ecological conditions modulate the effects of group living and communal rearing on offspring production and survival

(2014) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Behavioral responses to changing environments

(2014) B. B. M. Wong et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Dampening prey cycle overrides the impact of climate change on predator population dynamics: a long-term demographic study on tawny owls

(2014) Alexandre Millon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bottom-up and top-down processes interact to modify intraguild interactions in resource-pulse environments

(2014) Aaron C. Greenville et al.   OECOLOGIA

Conservation status of rodents of the families Geomyidae and Heteromyidae of Mexico

(2014) Jesús A. Fernández et al.   Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad

Reproductive correlates of social network variation in plurally breeding degus (Octodon degus)

(2013) Tina W. Wey et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Perfect storm: Demographic responses of an irruptive desert mammal to prescribed burns following flooding rain

(2013) Joel B. D'Souza et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Site occupancy response to natural and anthropogenic disturbances of root vole: Conservation problem of a vulnerable relict subspecies

(2013) Győző F. Horváth et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Indirect and mitigated effects of pulsed resources on the population dynamics of a northern rodent

(2013) Nikhil Lobo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Yellow-bellied marmots: insights from an emergent view of sociality

(2013) D. T. Blumstein   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intraspecific variation in social organization by genetic variation, developmental plasticity, social flexibility or entirely extrinsic factors

(2013) C. Schradin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Density Triggers Maternal Hormones That Increase Adaptive Offspring Growth in a Wild Mammal

(2013) B. Dantzer et al.   SCIENCE

The influence of mean climate trends and climate variance on beaver survival and recruitment dynamics

(2012) Ruairidh D. Campbell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Better off alone! Reproductive competition and ecological constraints determine sociality in the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio)

(2012) Ivana Schoepf et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Habitat use by colonial tuco-tucos (Ctenomys sociabilis): specialization, variation, and sociality

(2012) Mauro N. Tammone et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Response of an arctic predator guild to collapsing lemming cycles

(2012) N. M. Schmidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multiple captures provide evidence of small mammal social behavior

(2011) Betty McGuire et al.   ACTA THERIOLOGICA

Factors associated with long-term changes in distribution of black-tailed prairie dogs in northwestern Mexico

(2011) Rafael Avila-Flores et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Proximate causes of natal dispersal in female yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventris

(2011) Kenneth B. Armitage et al.   ECOLOGY

Correlates and Consequences of Dominance in a Social Rodent

(2011) Brian Huang et al.   ETHOLOGY

Hormone levels of male African striped mice change as they switch between alternative reproductive tactics

(2011) Carsten Schradin et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Burrow limitations and group living in the communally rearing rodent,Octodon degus

(2011) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Resource pulses, switching trophic control, and the dynamics of small mammal assemblages in arid Australia

(2011) Mike Letnic et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Kin selection in Columbian ground squirrels: direct and indirect fitness benefits

(2011) F. STEPHEN DOBSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Philopatry and within-colony movements in Columbian ground squirrels

(2011) COLINE M. ARNAUD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Social flexibility and social evolution in mammals: a case study of the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio)

(2011) CARSTEN SCHRADIN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Sociality, individual fitness and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

(2011) KENNETH B. ARMITAGE   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Coping with Intense Reproductive Aggression in Male Arctic Ground Squirrels: The Stress Axis and Its Signature Tell Divergent Stories

(2011) Brendan Delehanty et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Maternal androgens and behaviour in free-ranging North American red squirrels

(2010) Ben Dantzer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Reproductive competition favours solitary living while ecological constraints impose group-living in African striped mice

(2010) Carsten Schradin et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

(2010) Felicia Keesing et al.   NATURE

Redundant or complementary? Impact of a colonizing species on community structure and function

(2010) Katherine M. Thibault et al.   OIKOS

Rapid Decline of a Grassland System and Its Ecological and Conservation Implications

(2010) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PLoS One

Testosterone Levels in Dominant Sociable Males Are Lower than in Solitary Roamers: Physiological Differences between Three Male Reproductive Tactics in a Sociably Flexible Mammal

(2009) Carsten Schradin et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Fitness consequences of group living in the degu Octodon degus, a plural breeder rodent with communal care

(2009) Loren D. Hayes et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Reintroducing endangered Vancouver Island marmots: Survival and cause-specific mortality rates of captive-born versus wild-born individuals

(2009) Kristen Aaltonen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Population dynamics of two sympatric rodents in a variable environment: rainfall, resource availability, and predation

(2009) M. Andrea Previtali et al.   ECOLOGY

Kin selection in Columbian ground squirrels (Urocitellus columbianus): littermate kin provide individual fitness benefits

(2009) V. A. Viblanc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Zero Sum, the Niche, and Metacommunities: Long‐Term Dynamics of Community Assembly

(2008) S. K. Morgan Ernest et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

On the dynamics of rodent social groups

(2008) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT KANGAROO RATS: NONLINEAR EFFECTS OF POPULATION DYNAMICS, COMPETITION, AND RAINFALL

(2008) Mauricio Lima et al.   ECOLOGY

Seasonal changes in testosterone and corticosterone levels in four social classes of a desert dwelling sociable rodent

(2008) Carsten Schradin   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Burrowing rodents increase landscape heterogeneity in a desert grassland

(2008) A.D. Davidson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Indirect Fitness Benefits Do Not Compensate for the Loss of Direct Fitness in Yellow-Bellied Marmots

(2008) Madan K. Oli et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly

(2008) K. M. Thibault et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Differences in prolactin levels between three alternative male reproductive tactics in striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio)

(2008) C. Schradin   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Collapsing population cycles

(2008) R IMS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION