We warmly thank all students and Earthwatch volunteers involved in catching the marmots and the authorities of the Vanoise National Park for granting us permission to work in the Grande Sassière Nature Reserve. The fieldwork conducted complies with French laws. All the handling and sampling were done by DA and AC who are authorized for experimentation with animals by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (diploma no. R45GRETAF110). The protocol was approved by the ethical committee of the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 no. BH2012-92 V1. Our research was supported by the ‘Agence Nationale de la Recherche’ (ANR, project ANR-13-JSV7-0005). CIC was supported by an Intra-European Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (# 330282), an AXA research fund and a Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich (# 14097), AO by an ERC Starting Grant (# 337785). We greatly acknowledge the support of the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, Norway that funded and hosted the research project (‘Climate effects on harvested large mammal populations’) in which AC was participating during the academic year of 2015/16.
Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, Switzerland; UMR-CNRS 5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, 43 Bd. du 11 novembre 1918, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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Canale C.I.,Ozgul A.,Allainé D.,et al. Differential plasticity of size and mass to environmental change in a hibernating mammal[J]. Global Change Biology,2016-01-01,22(10)