Tag: American pika

Increasing frequency and length of snow droughts in Washington state may be linked to hoary marmot population declines. “Hoary marmots are one of many subnivean species that may be stressed...

When Andrew Smith hikes with his wife in the Sierra Nevada, he often wears a T-shirt with a picture of a pika on it. The image of the charismatic, rabbit-like...

American pikas are considered to be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to the high alpine regions that many of them occupy. Biologists have believed that genetics play a strong...

As mountaintop dwellers, American pikas (Ochotona princeps) are particularly susceptible to climate change, but recent research suggests a population in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains were driven to extirpation from the...

In the face of climate change, animals have a few options for how they can react — they can move to a new area, adapt, acclimate or die. In a...