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The sound of arousal in music is context-dependentDaniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Biol Lett 8:744-7. 2012....- Scared and less noisy: glucocorticoids are associated with alarm call entropyDaniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Biol Lett 8:189-92. 2012..This study suggests that, like some other species, calls emitted from highly aroused individuals are less noisy. Glucocorticoids thus play an important, yet underappreciated role, in alarm call production... - The potential to encode sex, age, and individual identity in the alarm calls of three species of MarmotinaeVera A Matrosova
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, 12 1, Moscow 119991, Russia
Naturwissenschaften 98:181-92. 2011..In each species, variation that allows identification of the caller's identity was greater than variation allowing identification of age or sex. We discuss these results in relation to each species' biology and sociality... - A test of the social cohesion hypothesis: interactive female marmots remain at homeDaniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Proc Biol Sci 276:3007-12. 2009..This is the first strong support for the social cohesion hypothesis and suggests that the specific nature of social relationships, not simply the number of affiliative relationships, may influence the propensity to disperse... 
Heritability of anti-predatory traits: vigilance and locomotor performance in marmotsD T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
J Evol Biol 23:879-87. 2010..Both strategies seem to be equally successful, and this 'locomotor ability-wariness' syndrome may therefore allow slow animals to compensate behaviourally for their impaired locomotor ability...- Is sociality associated with high longevity in North American birds?D T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Biol Lett 4:146-8. 2008..Thus, sociality itself is not associated with high longevity. Rather, longevity is correlated with increased body size, survival rate and age of first reproduction... - Do film soundtracks contain nonlinear analogues to influence emotion?Daniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095 1606, USA
Biol Lett 6:751-4. 2010..Adventure films had more male screams than expected. Together, our results suggest that film-makers manipulate sounds to create nonlinear analogues in order to manipulate our emotional responses... - Feeling the heat: ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attackDaniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:14177-8. 2007 
The failure of environmental education (and how we can fix it)Daniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e120. 2007
Darwinian decision making: putting the adaptive into adaptive managementDaniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 621 Young Drive South, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA
Conserv Biol 21:552-3. 2007- Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmotsDaniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Biol Lett 2:29-32. 2006..Marmots are sensitive to variation in the reliability of callers. The present finding provides one possible mechanism underlying caller variation: physiological arousal influences the propensity to emit alarm calls... - How does the presence of predators influence the persistence of antipredator behavior?Daniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, 90095 1606, USA
J Theor Biol 239:460-8. 2006..The loss of all predators relaxed selection on predator recognition abilities. The loss of specific predators had complex effects on recognition abilities. Persistence is largely influenced by escape costs... - The loss of anti-predator behaviour following isolation on islandsDaniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:1663-8. 2005..Together, these results demonstrate that anti-predator behaviour may indeed be lost or modified when animals are isolated on islands, but it is premature to assume that all such behaviour is affected... - Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callersDaniel T Blumstein
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 621 Young Drive South, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:1851-7. 2004..Marmots' assessment of reliability acts by influencing the time allocated to individual assessment and thus the time not allocated to other activities... - Quantifying personality in the terrestrial hermit crab: different measures, different inferencesNoelle M Watanabe
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Behav Processes 91:133-40. 2012..These results suggest that more attention must be placed on how we infer personalities from standardized methods, and that we must be careful to not force our data to fit our frameworks... - Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild yellow-bellied marmots: experimental validation, individual differences and ecological correlatesJennifer E Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Gen Comp Endocrinol 178:417-26. 2012..Taken together, this study provides a foundation for understanding the evolution of hormonal traits and has important welfare and conservation implications for field biologists... - Stimulus concordance and risk-assessment in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus): implications for attentionKelsea M Ryan
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, United States
Behav Processes 91:26-9. 2012..We suggest that a distal relationship between the eliciting stimulus and an unrelated signal may produce greater distraction. This marks the first reported experimental evidence of this relationship in an invertebrate species... - Auditory stimulation dishabituates anti-predator escape behavior in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus)W David Stahlman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Behav Processes 88:7-11. 2011.... - Anthropogenic noise affects risk assessment and attention: the distracted prey hypothesisAlvin Aaden Yim Hol Chan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Biol Lett 6:458-61. 2010..Anthropogenic sounds may thus distract prey and make them more vulnerable to predation... - Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyondKimberly A Pollard
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:1869-78. 2012.... - Older mothers follow conservative strategies under predator pressure: the adaptive role of maternal glucocorticoids in yellow-bellied marmotsRaquel Monclús
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Horm Behav 60:660-5. 2011..These age-related effects may permit females to make adaptive decisions that increase their pups' fitness according to their current situation... - Masculinized female yellow-bellied marmots initiate more social interactionsRaquel Monclús
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Biol Lett 8:208-10. 2012..Further support comes from previous findings showing that masculinized females were more likely to disperse. Our study stresses the importance of considering litter sex composition as a fitness modulator... - Social group size predicts the evolution of individualityKimberly A Pollard
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Curr Biol 21:413-7. 2011..Our results suggest that social group size may promote the evolution of individual signatures and that the sociality-individuality relationship may be a general phenomenon in nature... - Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationshipsAmanda J Lea
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:21587-92. 2010..Our study highlights the importance of studying agonistic as well as affiliative relationships to understand fully the connections between sociality and fitness... - Multimodal communication and spatial binding in pied currawongs (Strepera graculina)Sarah R Lombardo
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Anim Cogn 11:675-82. 2008..Our study was novel in its attempt to assess cognitive processes involved in the integration of spatially disparate bimodal signaling events in free-living birds... - Litter sex composition affects life-history traits in yellow-bellied marmotsRaquel Monclús
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
J Anim Ecol 81:80-6. 2012..This finding highlights the importance of studying these maternal effects, and they enhance our concern over the widespread use of endocrine disrupting compounds... - Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirdsAlexander N G Kirschel
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:8256-61. 2009.... - Does habituation to humans influence predator discrimination in Gunther's dik-diks (Madoqua guentheri)?Andrea Coleman
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Biol Lett 4:250-2. 2008..Our results demonstrate that humans may influence predation hazard assessment, but we should not generally assume that human-habituated animals will be especially vulnerable to predators... - Energetics of hibernating yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)Kenneth B Armitage
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 7534, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 134:101-14. 2003..Torpidity results in average energy savings during winter of 83.3% of the costs of maintaining euthermy. Energy savings are greater than those reported for Marmota marmota and M. monax... - Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulationArpat Ozgul
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 0430, USA
J Anim Ecol 75:191-202. 2006.... - Spatiotemporal variation in reproductive parameters of yellow-bellied marmotsArpat Ozgul
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, 110 Newins Ziegler Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Oecologia 154:95-106. 2007..However, the annual fluctuation in litter size, abetted by the breeding probabilities, accounted for most of the temporal variation in lambda... - Rodent sociality and parasite diversityFrédéric Bordes
Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, CNRS UM2, CC065, Université de Montpellier 2, 34095 Montpellier, France
Biol Lett 3:692-4. 2007..Our finding may also result from beneficial outcomes of social living that include behavioural defences, like allogrooming, and the increased avoidance of parasites through dilution effects... - Spatiotemporal variation in survival rates: implications for population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmotsArpat Ozgul
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 0430, USA
Ecology 87:1027-37. 2006....
Research Grants
- JWatcher-event recorder and behavioral analysis programDANIEL BLUMSTEIN; Fiscal Year: 2004..While we will continue to freely-distribute the software, on-going support and routine updates will be supported by the sales of a detailed users manual, which will include laboratory exercises suitable for teaching. ..