EBIO research team finds Southern Rockies pikas holding their own

Pikas are sensitive to changes in temperature and snowpack, which have driven them to higher elevations and even local extinction in some areas of the western US. But doctoral candidate Liesl Erb, with Rob Guralnick, Chris Ray, and EBIO undergraduate research assistants Gavin Dean, Justine Smith, and Lizzy Studer, have found that pikas are doing better in the Southern Rocky Mountain region than elsewhere. See the full story here and featured in the Daily Camera.