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The pika, pictured above, is a small mammal whose habitat is limited to cold areas near the tops of mountains. As climate warms, little suitable habitat is left. Of 25 pika populations studied in the Great Basin between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, more than one-third have gone extinct in recent decades.1,2

References

• 1. [261] Beever, E. A., P. F. Brussard, and J. Berger. "Patterns of Apparent Extirpation among Isolated Populations of Pikas (Ochotona Princeps) in the Great Basin." Journal of Mammalogy 84, no. 1 (2009): 37-54.
• 2. [262] Krajick, K.. "Climate Change: All Downhill from Here?" Science 303, no. 5664 (2004): 1600-1602.

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