Related to rabbits and hares and adapted to high-elevation habitat, the American pika faces a bleak future as temperatures rise and snow cover disappears 5 Record-Breaking Bird Migrations (02:56 ...

Climate change is a hot topic (sorry—no pun intended ... And when the Earth warms, its climate changes. The American pika lives in cool mountainous areas in western North America and can ...

THREATS: Major threats include climate change, livestock grazing, and human disturbance. Global warming represents the gravest threat to the long-term survival of the American pika by increasing the ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...

The whereabouts of the pint-sized pika, a mammalian indicator species that is losing its alpine habitat to climate change, have been mapped for the first time in Wyoming’s reaches of the Rocky ...

The American pika presents unique challenges for biologists ... indicator species for examining the ecological effects of climate change. Changes in pika populations can signal broader shifts ...

mainly, how those changes will affect the distribution of the American pika, an indicator species of the human-aided climate change.