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Marmota vancouverensis (Vancouver marmot; Vancouver Island marmot)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis) naturally occurs only in the high mountains of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia. This particular marmot species is large compared to some other marmots, and most other rodents. Marmots as a group are the largest members of the squirrel family, with weights of adults varying from 3 to 7 kg depending on age and time of year.
View Wikipedia Record: Marmota vancouverensis

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Marmota vancouverensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
49
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.2
EDGE Score: 3.93
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10.472 lbs (4.75 kg)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 years 3 months
Gestation [1]  30 days
Hibernates [3]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  12 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  21 inches (53 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central Pacific coastal forests Canada, United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests  

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve 864738 British Columbia, Canada  
Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve 293047 British Columbia, Canada  

Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) Sites

Name  Location   Map   Climate   Land Use 
Mountains of Southeast Vancouver Island Canada

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Baylisascaris laevis[6]
Thrassis spenceri spenceri[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Marmota vancouverensis, David G. Nagorsen, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 270, pp. 1-5 (1987)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
AZE sites provided by Alliance for Zero Extinction (2010). 2010 AZE Update.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0