Keystone status of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae): effect of control on biodiversity of native birds

By C. Lai, Andrew T. Smith. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Phylogeography of regional fauna on the Tibetan Plateau: A review (2009, background): “humilis) and six species of snow finches, and appear to be both an allogenic engineer and a keystone species in the fauna of the Tibetan Plateau [70].”
The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis (2016, background): “Keystone roles have been demonstrated, for instance in O. curzoniae in Tibet (Lai and Smith 2003; Smith and Foggin 1999) and O. pallasi in Mongolia (Wesche et al. 2007).”
Habitat engineering under dry conditions: The impact of pikas (Ochotona pallasi) on vegetation and site conditions in southern Mongolian steppes (2007, background): “Burrowing activity is often thought to contribute to lasting steppe degradation in terms of soil conditions and fodder palatability (Lai & Smith 2003), in which case burrowers could be regarded as pest species.”
European rabbits as ecosystem engineers: warrens increase lizard density and diversity (2009, background): “They may affect the spatial distribution of invertebrates (Hawkins and Nicoletto 1992; Bangert and Slobodchikoff 2006), promote bird diversity (Lai and Smith 2003), influence grassland community composition (Whicker and Detling 1998), and benefit small mammals, reptiles and amphibians (Lomolino and ”
Keystone rodent interactions: prairie dogs and kangaroo rats structure the biotic composition of a desertified grassland (2006, background): “The loss of arid grasslands to desertification and declines in similar keystone rodents is a world-wide phenomenon (Schlesinger et al. 1990, Whitford 1997, Branch et al. 1999, Whitford 2002, Lai and Smith 2003, Zhang et al. 2003).”
Population dynamics and responses to management of plateau pikas Ochotona curzoniae (2007, background): “By the early 1960s, poisoning campaigns occurred in 20 counties in Qinghai Province alone and more than 208 000 km 2 of grassland had been treated by 1965.”
Rabbits as a keystone species in southern Europe (2007, background): “A similar role of keystone species has been observed in other lagomorphs such as plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae; Lai and Smith, 2003).”