Disappearance of the Pika
The American pika has died out from a 165-square-mile area of habitat in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, due to climate change.
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The American pika has died out from a 165-square-mile area of habitat in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, due to climate change.
Species can respond to increasing temperatures by moving upslope to higher elevations, however in many locations the mountains are just not high enough to provide a safe refuge.
The pikas ingest the low quality moss over and over again and, with the help of microbes in their gut, the moss is turned into high-quality food. The end product is 6 times more nutritious than the moss itself.