But for the American pika, geography may matter even more. ... an ecologist and computational biologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development.

SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups filed two lawsuits today seeking protection of the American pika, whose survival is imperiled by global warming. The groups went to state court seeking protection of ...

Pika conservation project goes statewide, ... Two adult male American pikas fighting over territory in Rocky Mountain National Park. Photo taken by Dick Orleans for the Front Range Pika Project.

The American pika is a charismatic, ... Conservation status of American pikas (Ochotona princeps). Journal of Mammalogy, 2020; DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaa110; ...

The Colorado Pika Project relies on a growing contingent of volunteers known as the “Pika Patrol,” who help survey and collect data about pikas throughout the summer.This season, more than 400 ...

The Front Range Pika Project, the U.S. Forest Service and Walking Mountains Science Center are seeking volunteers to do American pika surveys on the White River National Forest this summer. Volunteer ...

An American pika feeding on grass in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Photo via Wikimedia Commons . Phenological responses occurred in 22.6 percent of the studies Beever and team looked at.

In recent years, the climate crisis has negatively affected many ecosystems across the United States, including the Roaring Fork Valley. The Colorado Pika Project is trying to determine the effects ...

Oregon Zoo seeks volunteer pika watchers for cute summer conservation duty. Michael Durham, courtesy of the Oregon Zoo An American pika sits atop a rock on a talus slope in the Columbia River Gorge.

Some people want to ring the alarm. Others want to mute it or perhaps turn it off entirely. The cute little pika, according to at least one expert, needs no alarm. It can decide for itself ...

If there were such a thing as a living, breathing barometer for climate change, it would probably be the American pika (Ochotona princeps).The thickly-furred bodies of these chatty, mountain ...