Sampling a pika's pantry: Temporal shifts in nutritional quality and winter preservation of American pika food caches by Johanna Varner, Zoe J. Carnes‐Douglas, Emily Monk, Lauren M. Benedict, Ashley Whipple, M. Denise Dearing, Sabuj Bhattacharyya, Loren Griswold, Chris Ray

“…To survive between growing seasons, pikas cache “haypiles” of plants rich in phenolics. …”
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Can pikas hold the umbrella? Understanding the current and future umbrella potential of keystone species Pika (Ochotona spp.) by Ojaswi Sumbh, Anouschka R. Hof

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Walker, Anthony R. (ed.). Pika-Pika: The Flashing Firefly. Essays to Honour and Celebrate the Life of Pauline Hetland Walker (1938–2005) by Clifford Sather

“… WALKER, ANTHONY R. (ed.). Pika-Pika: The Flashing Firefly. Essays to Honour and Celebrate the Life of Pauline Hetland Walker (1938–2005). …”
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The distribution and behavioral characteristics of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) by Jun Qiu, Cang Ma, Ying-Hui Jia, Jin-Zhao Wang, Shou-Kai Cao, Fang-Fang Li

“…Plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) are regarded as one of the main causes of the degradation of alpine meadows in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). …”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Daurian pika (Ochotona dauurica) by Xiufeng Yang, Wen Ao, Dajie Xu, Shi Feng, Guolei Sun, Huashan Dou, Weilai Sha, Honghai Zhang

“…In this study, we sequenced and uploaded the complete mitochondrial genome of Daurian pika (Ochotona dauurica) for the first time using tissue obtained from a wild female sample captured from Inner Mongolia, China. …”
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PIKA: A Network Service for Multikernel Operating Systems by Beckmann, Nathan Z., Gruenwald III, Charles, Johnson, Christopher R., Kasture, Harshad, Sironi, Filippo, Agarwal, Anant, Kaashoek, M. Frans, Zeldovich, Nickolai

“…PIKA is a network stack designed for multikernel operating systems that target potential future architectures lacking cache-coherent shared memory but supporting message passing. …”
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Effect of the presence of plateau pikas on the ecosystem services of alpine meadows by Y. Y. Chen, H. Yang, G. S. Bao, X. P. Pang, Z. G. Guo

“…This study showed that the forage available to livestock and water conservation was 19 % and 16 % lower in the presence of plateau pikas than in their absence, and biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, soil nitrogen and phosphorus maintenance was 15 %, 29 %, 10 % and 8.9 % higher in the presence of plateau pikas than in their absence. …”
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The role of geography, environment, and genetic divergence on the distribution of pikas in the Himalaya by Nishma Dahal, Sunil Kumar, Barry R. Noon, Rajat Nayak, Rinzin Phunjok Lama, Uma Ramakrishnan

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Pika gut may select for rare but diverse environmental bacteria by Huan Li, Tongtong Li, Minjie Yao, Jiabao Li, Shiheng Zhang, Stephan Wirth, Weidong Cao, Qiang Lin, Xiangzhen Li

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FORMATION EVALUATION FOR JERIBE FORMATION IN THE JARIA PIKA GAS FIELD by Abdulrahman, Salam

“…The Jaria Pika Gas field is a domal anticlinal structure in the northeast of Iraq NW trending, about 3.6 km long and 1.9 km wide. …”
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Pika population density is associated with composition and diversity of gut microbiota by Huan eLi, Jiapeng eQu, Tongtong eLi, Jiabao eLi, Qiang eLin, Xiangzhen eLi

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The identification of pika and hare through tricho-taxonomy (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) by Manokaran Kamalakannan, Kailash Chandra, Joy Krishna De, Chinnadurai Venkatraman

“…The macroscopic and microscopic characters of dorsal guard hairs of Indian lagomorphs (four species of pikas and three species of hare) are described; the cuticular and medullary characters are similar between the species studied.  …”
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Genetic structure of Afghan Pika (Ochotona rufescens) in Northern Khorasan Province by Olyagholi Khalilipour, Afshin Alizadeh Shabani, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Mohammad Kaboli, Sohrab Ashrafi

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Infection of Afghan Pika (Ochotona rufescens) with Oxyurid Worms in Northeastern Iran by Somaye Momeni, faezeh Najafi, Saied Reza Naddaf, Farzaneh Zahabiun, Mostafa Hosseini, Zeinolabedin Mohammadi, Mansour Aliabadian, Gholamreza Mowlavi

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The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the Chinese red pika (Ochotona erythrotis) by Yu-Jiao He, Yong-Gui Ma, Gong-Hua Lin, Tong-Zuo Zhang, Jian-Ping Su

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Genomic variation in the American pika: signatures of geographic isolation and implications for conservation by Kelly B. Klingler, Joshua P. Jahner, Thomas L. Parchman, Chris Ray, Mary M. Peacock

“…These effects have been exacerbated for the American pika (Ochotona princeps), a small alpine lagomorph constrained by thermal sensitivity and a limited dispersal capacity. …”
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Species-Level Taxonomic Characterization of Uncultured Core Gut Microbiota of Plateau Pika by Ji Pu, Jing Yang, Shan Lu, Dong Jin, Xuelian Luo, Yanwen Xiong, Xiangning Bai, Wentao Zhu, Yuyuan Huang, Shusheng Wu, Lina Niu, Liyun Liu, Jianguo Xu

“…We used a combination of full-length 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, shotgun metagenomics, and metabolomics to elucidate the species-level community structure and the metabolic potential of the gut microbiota of the plateau pika. Using a full-length 16S rRNA metataxonomic approach, we clustered 618 (166 ± 35 per sample) operational phylogenetic units (OPUs) from 105 plateau pika samples and assigned them to 215 known species, 226 potentially new species, and 177 higher hierarchical taxa. …”
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Among-population divergence in personality is linked to altitude in plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae ) by Jiapeng Qu, Denis Réale, Quinn E. Fletcher, Yanming Zhang

“…We observed that plateau pikas at high altitudes were less active and more docile than pika at lower altitudes. …”
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Effect of chronic traffic noise on behavior and physiology of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) by Jiapeng Qu, Jiapeng Qu, Yun Wang, Yun Wang, Yaping Kong, Hongjuan Zhu, Hongjuan Zhu, Yibo Yu, Yibo Yu, Liang Zhong, Liang Zhong

“…We showed that noise exposure increased the pika’s exploration and cortisol concentration (CORT) but decreased the resting metabolic rate (RMR). …”
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Consequences of plateau pika disturbance on plant-soil carbon and nitrogen in alpine meadows by Xue Ting Xu, Yi Mo Wang, Xiao Zheng Wang, Jie Na Li, Jie Li, Ding Yang, Zheng Gang Guo, Xiao Pan Pang

“…However, plateau pika did not affect soil C and N stocks or ecosystem C and N stocks. …”
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