Mechanistic variables can enhance predictive models of endotherm distributions: the American pika under current, past, and future climates

PD Mathewson, L Moyer‐Horner… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
How climate constrains species' distributions through time and space is an important
question in the context of conservation planning for climate change. Despite increasing …

Landscape effects on gene flow for a climate‐sensitive montane species, the A merican pika

JA Castillo, CW Epps, AR Davis… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge to conservation of our time. Most
vulnerability assessments rely on past and current species distributions to predict future …

[图书][B] Lagomorphs: pikas, rabbits, and hares of the world

AT Smith, CH Johnston, PC Alves, K Hackländer - 2018 - books.google.com
The definitive guide to all lagomorphs—pikas, rabbits, and hares. Numbering 92 species
worldwide, members of the order Lagomorpha are familiar to people throughout the world …

The importance of biologically relevant microclimates in habitat suitability assessments

J Varner, MD Dearing - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Predicting habitat suitability under climate change is vital to conserving biodiversity.
However, current species distribution models rely on coarse scale climate data, whereas …

Revisiting the past to foretell the future: summer temperature and habitat area predict pika extirpations in California

JAE Stewart, JD Perrine, LB Nichols… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim 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 …

Factors influencing distributional shifts and abundance at the range core of a climate‐sensitive mammal

PD Billman, EA Beever, DB McWethy… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Species are frequently responding to contemporary climate change by shifting to higher
elevations and poleward to track suitable climate space. However, depending on local …

Colonization from divergent ancestors: glaciation signatures on contemporary patterns of genomic variation in Collared Pikas (Ochotona collaris)

HC Lanier, R Massatti, Q He, LE Olson… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the genetic structure of a species and the factors that drive it is an important first
step in modern population management, in part because populations evolving from …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic and taxonomic variation in adaptive capacity among mountain-dwelling small mammals: Implications for conservation status and actions

EA Beever, JL Wilkening, PD Billman, LL Thurman… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contemporary climate change is modifying the distribution, morphology, phenology,
physiology, evolution, and interspecific interactions of species. Effects of climate change are …

Habitat availability and gene flow influence diverging local population trajectories under scenarios of climate change: a place‐based approach

D Schwalm, CW Epps, TJ Rodhouse… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological niche theory holds that species distributions are shaped by a large and complex
suite of interacting factors. Species distribution models (SDM s) are increasingly used to …

Pika (Ochotona princeps) losses from two isolated regions reflect temperature and water balance, but reflect habitat area in a mainland region

EA Beever, JD Perrine, T Rickman… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Although biotic responses to contemporary climate change are spatially pervasive and often
reflect synergies between climate and other ecological disturbances, the relative importance …