Scientists from the University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have completed a 13-year long investigation into the survival strategies of an enigmatic ...
Plateau pika is umbrella species for conservation of alpine grassland ecosystem under climate change
How species cope with ongoing climate change is critical to preventing an exacerbation of biodiversity loss. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is the highest plateau in the world, and this extreme ...
Winter on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is unfriendly to pikas. Temperatures across the barren, windy highlands routinely dip below –30° Celsius, and the grass that typically sustains the rabbitlike ...
Adaptive functional evolution may occur in the leptin protein of the pika family, a typical cold-adaptive mammal. Researchers speculated that the cold, rather than hypoxia, may be the primary ...
YUSHU COUNTY, CHINA — As he gazes out across the rolling grasslands of the Tibetan plateau, where hundreds of his yaks are grazing, 70-year-old Awang Chumpey is less than happy. The land he shares ...
The plateau pika doesn’t have many friends. This small burrowing relative of the rabbit, weighing only around 140 grams, is the most abundant mammal on the vast grasslands of the Tibetan plateau, but ...
In the remote upper reaches of the Eastern Himalayas in Sikkim, India, scientists have discovered a new species of pika, a cute rabbit-like mammal. By analyzing the pika’s genetic data sampled from ...
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