Holarctic Marmots as a factor of Biodiversity.
Rumiantsev V.Yu;, Nikol'skii A.A. & Brandler O.V. eds.,
Abstracts,
3d Conference on Marmots (Cheboksary, Russia, 25-30 August 1997),
Moscow ABF 1997, 216p. : 191.
SPATIAL REPARTITION OF THE ACTIVITY OF ALPINE MARMOTS
IN THEIR HOME RANGE IN RELATION WITH ECOLOGICAL AND HUMAN FACTORS
Yu. Semenov, O. Giboulet, S. Louis
Laboratoire de Socioécologie et Conservation Bâtiment 403, UCBL1,
Villeurbanne Cedex, France
This study take into account a small number of social groups of marmots in a moderately high mountain (2300 m high) in the northern part of the village of Aussois (Savoie, Haute Maurienne). In this area the ecological conditions are diverse (slopes, exposure, vegetal cover, rocks). It is also diverse for the pressure exerted on marmots by visitors. We compared the different space occupations by marmots in relation with the fact that their home-range is close to a footpath or is free of human frequentation. A study using 30m quadrates, processed with the statistical programme ADE, showed that marmots adapted their behaviour to human pressure : the more disturbed marmots stayed closer to their burrow than less disturbed marmots.Compensation in feeding is obtained by a shift in the daily distribution of survival activities, particularly feeding.
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