BLM Idaho wildlife biologists use pikas as climate change indicators
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Pikas & climate change
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American Pika as an Indicator Species for Detecting Climate Change (U.S. National Park Service)
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Scientists Watch Pikas Living In Colorado's High Alpine Areas For Clues On Climate Change - CBS Colorado
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Impacts of climate change on multiple use management of Bureau of Land Management land in the Intermountain West, USA - Brice - 2020 - Ecosphere - Wiley Online Library
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Dispatches - 2011 - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Wiley Online Library
Forest Ecosystems
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BLM Idaho wildlife biologists use pikas as climate change indicators
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Indicators of Climate Change in Idaho: An Assessment Framework for Coupling Biophysical Change and Social Perception in: Weather, Climate, and Society Volume 7 Issue 3 (2015)
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Exploring areas where American pikas (Ochotona princeps) can thrive.
Citizen Science—The Denali Alpine Wildlife Project - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
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American Pika as an Indicator Species for Detecting Climate Change (U.S. National Park Service)
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Impacts of climate change on multiple use management of Bureau of Land Management land in the Intermountain West, USA - Brice - 2020 - Ecosphere - Wiley Online Library
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PIKA: A Global Warming Indicator Species
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Citizen Science—The Denali Alpine Wildlife Project - Denali National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
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August, in brief. Key news from August:, by Lilly Bock-Brownstein, Westwise