Study documents local extinction
of pikas from the largest area yet reported and projects climate change will
cause drastic decline for the charismatic mammal within decades
Date: August 30, 2017
Source: University of California
- Santa Cruz
Summary:
The American pika, a small mammal
adapted to high altitudes and cold temperatures, has died out from a
165-square-mile span of habitat in California's northern Sierra Nevada
mountains, and the cause appears to be climate change. Researchers surveyed
pika habitat throughout the north Lake Tahoe area and found that pikas had
disappeared from an area that stretches from near Tahoe City to Truckee, more
than 10 miles away, and includes Mount Pluto.
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