Adversity Early in Life Affects Health

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marmot survival

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Biologists find that hardship early in life can affect health and longevity—even for marmots

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UCLA biologists create the first cumulative adversity index for yellow-bellied marmots.

The index is based on 62 years of continuous data collection at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado .

It is the second -longest study of individually marked mammals in the world.

The study offers detailed steps for scientists with large datasets for other species to create their own CAI .

Conservation plans targeting this marmot population might target the down-valley group which, surprisingly, fared a little worse in reducing maternal mortality and improving the health of mothers.

But they might not need to target reducing predation or countering the effects of summer drought; these did not turn out to be as important as expected.

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