Revisiting the past to foretell the future: summer temperature and habitat area predict pika extirpations in California
By J. Stewart, J. Perrine, Lyle B. Nichols, James H. Thorne, C. Millar, Kenneth E. Goehring, Cody P. Massing, D. Wright. 2015
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The American pika (Ochotona princeps) appears to have experienced climate‐mediated upslope range contraction in the Great Basin of North America, but this result has not yet been extended to other portions of the pika's range. Our goals were: first, to determine the environmental parameters that most influence current pika distribution within California; second, to infer whether these constraints explain extirpations that have occurred in California; third, to predict future extirpations; and fourth, to advance methods for assessing the degree to which pikas and other climate‐sensitive mammals are threatened by climate change.
Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures (2022, background): “For example, a study indicated that the American pika has been extirpated or intensely diminished in some regions, primarily attributed to the CC-impacted extinction or at least local extirpation (Stewart et al. 2015).”
- Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being (2017, unknown): “TheAmerican pika (Ochotona princeps) has been extirpated or severely diminished in some localities, signaling climateinduced extinction or at least local extirpation (43).”