Sentences with phrase «for pika»

It's a loss not just for the pikas but also for future generations who won't get to have that experience,» Stewart said.

The study predicts that only the highest peaks of the southern Sierra Nevada, Mt. Shasta, and the White Mountains are likely to remain suitable for pikas through the end of the 21st century.

And this isn't just bad news for pikas, but for other local wildlife as well - they are prey to many species and alter vegetation and soil composition by foraging.

Not exact matches

Johanna Varner is an assistant professor of biology at Colorado Mesa University, where she teaches courses for both biology majors and non-majors and studies the response of small rabbit - relatives, called pikas, to environmental change.

Varner is an assistant professor of biology at Colorado Mesa University, where she teaches courses for both biology majors and non-majors and studies the response of small rabbit - relatives, called pikas, to environmental change.

For example, she presented a lecture about pika ecology and ecology to inmates in Utah's Salt Lake County Jail System.

The Chinese government is poisoning pikas for wrecking the ecosystem, but they could be essential to the survival of the Tibetan fox and for regulating rivers

For the American pika, found in mountain areas in 10 Western states, «spring creep» means not just hotter summers, but colder winters in some areas, said wildlife biologist Erik Beever.

* Correction, 17 December, 6:20 p.m.: Pikas rely on moss for 60 % of their diet, not 80 % of their diet, as was previously reported.

But the pikas in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge rely on it for 60 % of their diet, the team reports today in the Journal of Mammalogy.

The pika does not ask for much.

«Pikas are a model organism for studying climate change, and their decline at low - elevation sites suggests that the future for other species is not great either,» Stewart said.

Researchers measured the rate at which soil absorbed water on grasslands with active pika colonies and in places where pikas had been exterminated for more than 2 years.

This bounding American pika (Ochotona princeps) in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park is foraging for food.

Low - altitude pikas have a modified version that seems to generate lots of heat but less fuel for the cell.

Pikas, which include about 30 species all living at different altitudes, have likely evolved special adaptations for living where they do.

And if the pika falters, it could mean trouble for an entire ecosystem: On the Tibetan Plateau, they are the most common small mammal to stay active through winter, providing one of the few foods for snow leopards, weasels, even bears.

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It's just not the right voice for someone who normally bounces around and squeals «Pika pika» in a very high pitched feminine squeal.

I scrambled around the rocks near their small cabbage garden, looking for evidence of pikas.

«The American pika may be an early - warning indicator of generally how alpine species may respond to contemporary climate change,» said Erik Beever, Ph.D., a wildlife ecologist who has studied pikas for the past 16 years.

When pikas are prevented from regulating their temperature behaviorally and are exposed to even slight warming — temperatures of 77 degrees Fahrenheit for six hours — they die.

Pikas, relatives of rabbits despite their hamster - like appearance, are exquisitely adapted for ferocious cold, but they can not withstand the heat.

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I know for a fact that Steele is largely right about pikas and some published butterfly work (but NOT all).

I show that pikas, small mammals closely related to rabbits, are losing their mountainous range and warming temperatures is a stress for them.

We've been working for the Sierra Nevada mountain yellow - legged frog since 2000, for the Sierra Nevada bighorn since 2005 and for the American pika since 2007.

Gradually changing a climatic parameter until some biological threshold is exceeded for most individuals and populations of a species across its geographic range — for example, increasing ambient temperature past the limit at which an animal can dissipate metabolic heat, as is happening with pikas at higher elevations in several mountain ranges (Grayson, 2005).

American pika gets assessed for Endangered Species Act protection In February, the adorable, rabbit - like pika became the first mammal outside of Alaska to be considered for protection because of threats resulting from global warming.

(04/21/2011) The last decade has not been a good one for the American pika (Ochotona princeps) according to a new study in Global Change Biology.