Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Plateau Pika (Ochotona curzoniae) in the Qinghai Lake Basin, China [PDF]
Animals, 2019 The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a keystone species in the alpine rangeland ecosystem of the Qinghai−Tibetan Plateau. Most previous studies of habitat selection by plateau pika have been conducted at a local microhabitat scale; however ...
Yi-Nan Wu +3 more
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Functional evolution of leptin of Ochotona curzoniae in adaptive thermogenesis driven by cold environmental stress. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BackgroundEnvironmental stress can accelerate the directional selection and evolutionary rate of specific stress-response proteins to bring about new or altered functions, enhancing an organism's fitness to challenging environments.
Jie Yang +8 more
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Autonomous UAV Detection of Ochotona curzoniae Burrows with Enhanced YOLOv11
DronesThe Tibetan Plateau is a critical ecological habitat where the overpopulation of plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae), a keystone species, accelerates grassland degradation through excessive burrowing and herbivory, threatening ecological balance and human ...
Huimin Zhao +3 more
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Letter for Qiu et al. (2021) regarding ‘The distribution and behavioral characteristics of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae)’ [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 While reading the paper ‘The distribution and behavioral characteristics of plateau pikas ( Ochotona curzoniae)’(Qiu et al. 2021), I found the authors of this paper appear to have a mistake of surface temperature.
Wen-Jing Li
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Age-Specific Composition and Predicted Function of Gut Microbiota in Plateau Pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) [PDF]
BiologyGut microbes play a crucial role in regulating physiological processes such as host energy metabolism, nutrient absorption, and environmental adaptation.
Hui Han +4 more
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Effectiveness of 10 polymorphic microsatellite markers for parentage and pedigree analysis in plateau pika
BMC Genetics, 2010 Background The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is an underground-dwelling mammal, native to the Tibetan plateau of China. A set of 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci has been developed earlier.
Zhang Yanming +4 more
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Impact of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) on soil properties and nitrous oxide fluxes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 This paper demonstrates the impact of an endemic fossorial animal, plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae), on soil properties and N2O flux at the Zoige Wetland.
Yan Zhou +9 more
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The distribution and behavioral characteristics of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 Plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) are regarded as one of the main causes of the degradation of alpine meadows in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). The population density of plateau pikas is directly related to the degree of grassland damage.
Jun Qiu +5 more
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Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2018 Plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae), burrowing lagomorphs endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), are considered pests by Chinese authorities because of their association with grasslands that are characterized as degraded.
Andrew Smith
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Gut region influences the diversity and interactions of bacterial communities in pikas (Ochotona curzoniae and Ochotona daurica) [PDF]
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2017 The mammalian microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) play important roles in host nutrition and health. However, we still lack an understanding of how these communities are organized across GIT in natural environments.
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