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Oryx, 2023 The Helan Shan pika Ochotona argentata is an Endangered pika endemic to Ningxia Helan Shan National Nature Reserve in China. Little is known about the species, including regarding its population status, distribution, habitat requirements and even basic ...
Joseph P. Lambert +4 more
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Pikas and People: Human-Pika (Ochotona) interaction in the Himalaya of Nepal
Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity, 2021 Abstract. Koju NP, Chalise MK, Kyes RC. 2021. Pikas and People: Human-Pika (Ochotona) interaction in the Himalaya of Nepal. Biodiversitas 22: 5085-5091. This study examined human-pika (Ochotona) interaction in two protected areas of Nepal: Lamtang National Park (LNP) and Api Nampa Conservation Area (ACNA).
Narayan Koju +2 more
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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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Return of the pika: American pikas re‐occupy long‐extirpated, warm locations
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 AbstractAmerican pikas (Ochotona princeps), small mammals related to rabbits, occur in mountainous regions of western North America, where they live in shattered‐rock habitats (talus). Aspects of their physiology and life history create situations that appear to put pikas at risk from warming climates.
Constance I. Millar, Andrew T. Smith
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Plastic pikas: Behavioural flexibility in low-elevation pikas (Ochotona princeps) [PDF]
Behavioural Processes, 2016 Behaviour is an important mechanism for accommodating rapid environmental changes. Understanding a species' capacity for behavioural plasticity is therefore a key, but understudied, aspect of developing tractable conservation and management plans under climate-change scenarios.
Varner, Johanna +7 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 According to life history theory, animals living in extreme environments have evolved specific behavioral and physiological strategies for survival. However, the genetic mechanisms underpinning these strategies are unclear.
Hongjuan Zhu +9 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 High-altitude environments impose intense stresses on living organisms and drive striking phenotypic and genetic adaptations, such as hypoxia resistance, cold tolerance, and increases in metabolic capacity and body mass. As one of the most successful and
Danping Mu +11 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Extensive research confirms that abiotic stressors like predation risk can profoundly affect animal condition. However, there is a lack of experimental research assessing the suite of physiological responses to risk.
Rui Zhou +4 more
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Nantong Daxue xuebao. Ziran kexue ban, 2020 Plateau pika is an endemic species of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and a key species of alpine grassland ecosystem, but its outbreak under certain conditions will also bring adverse effects on the alpine grassland, so it has received wide concerns.
YI Shuhua; CAO Wenda; ZHANG Jianguo; QIN Yu; SUN Yi; QIN Yan
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Degradation of the alpine meadow has received increasing attention recently, and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae, hereafter pika) disturbance is considered as an important cause.
Jianguo Zhang +7 more
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