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Monitoring Plateau Pika and Revealing the Associated Influencing Mechanisms in the Alpine Grasslands Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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Plateau 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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Key microbial phylum influencing the priming effects of variously degraded alpine meadow soils enriched with animal excrements [PDF]

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Tibetan sheep (Ovis aries) and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) excrements are important organic materials that influence soil carbon cycling in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
Kou, Jiancun   +8 more
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Autonomous UAV Detection of Ochotona curzoniae Burrows with Enhanced YOLOv11

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The 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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Eimeria infections of plateau pika altered the patterns of temporal alterations in gut bacterial communities

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology
Intestinal parasites, such as Eimeria, are common among plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae). The gut microbiome is an essential driver of the host response to gastrointestinal parasites.
Maoping Li   +18 more
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