Can pikas hold the umbrella? Understanding the current and future umbrella potential of keystone species Pika (Ochotona spp.) [PDF]
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 The umbrella species concept is a frequently used concept in conservation since the conservation of an umbrella species may benefit other species. Keystone species are often suggested as potential umbrella species, but the validity of this approach ...
Ojaswi Sumbh, Anouschka R. Hof
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Effect of Plateau Pika Disturbance on Plant Aboveground Biomass of Alpine Meadows at Two Different Scales [PDF]
Plants, 2022 Disturbance by small burrowing herbivores often has an impact on plant aboveground biomass of grassland because it makes grasslands into a mosaic of discrete vegetated surfaces and bare soil patches.
Xiaoxing Wei, Zhenggang Guo
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Natural selection and adaptive evolution of leptin in the ochotona family driven by the cold environmental stress. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BACKGROUND: Environmental stress can accelerate the evolutionary rate of specific stress-response proteins and create new functions specialized for different environments, enhancing an organism's fitness to stressful environments. Pikas (order Lagomorpha)
Jie Yang +7 more
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Plateau Pika Disturbance Changes Soil Bacterial Functions and Exoenzyme Abundance to Modulate the C Cycle Pathway in Alpine Grasslands. [PDF]
Int J Mol SciPlateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is crucial to soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau (QTP), but its role in bacterial SOC metabolisms across different degraded alpine grasslands remains unclear.
Li J, Wang Q, Zhu B, Yang M.
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Global Ecology and ConservationWith global warming, climate change had significant impacts on the distribution of species and their habitats. As one of the keystone species of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), the plateau pika Ochotona curzoniae plays a vital role in the alpine ...
Yanni Song +3 more
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The expression of Ldh-c in the skeletal muscle of plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) enhances adaptation to a hypoxic environment [PDF]
Biology Open, 2017 The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a species of sprint-running alpine animals in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is a harsh highland hypoxic environment. Ldh-c is expressed in the testis, sperm and somatic tissues of plateau pika.
Zhi F. An +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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Effect of Plateau pika on Soil Microbial Assembly Process and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Alpine Meadow Ecosystem [PDF]
MicroorganismsBurrowing animals are a critical driver of terrestrial ecosystem functioning, but we know little about their effects on soil microbiomes. Here, we evaluated the effect of burrowing animals on microbial assembly processes and co-occurrence patterns using ...
Wang X, Ye Z, Zhang C, Wei X.
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DronesPlateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae, hereafter pika) is a key species in the alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). They are susceptible to the influence of external disturbance and may present great variation, which is important to ...
Xinyu Liu, Yu Qin, Yi Sun, Shuhua Yi
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Complete mitochondrial genome of Scathophaga stercoraria (Diptera: Scathophagidae) in wild plateau pika: genome descriptions and phylogenetic evolution. [PDF]
ParasitologyAs a member of the Scathophagidae family, Scathophaga stercoraria (S. stercoraria) is widely distributed globally and is closely associated with animal feces. It is also a species of great interest to many scientific studies.
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