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'Armitage … presents a lifetime thesis (22 chapters in six parts) incorporating forty years of fieldwork, highlighting the yellow-bellied marmot as a representative example among the better-studied species from North America to Russia.' Dr Rajith Dissanayake, The Biologist
'Armitage … presents a lifetime thesis (22 chapters in six parts) incorporating forty years of fieldwork, highlighting the yellow-bellied marmot as a representative example among the better-studied species from North America to Russia.' Dr Rajith Dissanayake, The Biologist
'This thought-provoking volume miraculously condenses more than 41 years of research on the evolution and ecology of not only the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) but incorporates the comparative biology of the other 14 species of marmots into only 400 pages of text.' John L. Koprowski, The Quarterly Review of Biology
Kenneth B. Armitage is Baumgartner Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. His forty-year research project on the yellow-bellied marmot in the Upper East River Valley, Colorado, is the second longest continuous study of a mammal. He is an elected Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Honorary Member of the American Society of Mammalogists for 'distinguished service to the science of mammalogy'.