A diet rich in C3 plants reveals the sensitivity of an alpine mammal to climate change

New universal ITS2 primers for high-resolution herbivory analyses using DNA metabarcoding in both tropical and temperate zones

(2018) Rosemary J. Moorhouse-Gann et al.   Scientific Reports

Climate and topographic controls on snow cover dynamics in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

(2017) Deo Raj Gurung et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Apparent climate-mediated loss and fragmentation of core habitat of the American pika in the Northern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

(2017) Joseph A. E. Stewart et al.   PLoS One

Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance

(2016) William C. Wetzel et al.   NATURE

MEGAN Community Edition - Interactive Exploration and Analysis of Large-Scale Microbiome Sequencing Data

(2016) Daniel H. Huson et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Vegetation dynamics at the upper elevational limit of vascular plants in Himalaya

(2016) Jiri Dolezal et al.   Scientific Reports

Evolutionary Interactions Between Plant Reproduction and Defense Against Herbivores

(2015) Marc T.J. Johnson et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Of plants and pikas: evidence for a climate-mediated decline in forage and cache quality

(2015) Sabuj Bhattacharyya et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

(2015) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine and terrestrial herbivores display convergent chemical ecology despite 400 million years of independent evolution

(2015) Douglas B. Rasher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation

(2015) W. John Kress et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Presence of a small mammalian prey species in open habitat is dependent on refuge availability

(2015) S Bhattacharyya et al.   Mammal Research

From Benchtop to Desktop: Important Considerations when Designing Amplicon Sequencing Workflows

(2015) Dáithí C. Murray et al.   PLoS One

Influence of Snow, Food, and Rock Cover on Royle’s Pika Abundance in Western Himalaya

(2014) Sabuj Bhattacharyya et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Landscape effects on gene flow for a climate-sensitive montane species, the American pika

(2014) Jessica A. Castillo et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genotyping-in-Thousands by sequencing (GT-seq): A cost effective SNP genotyping method based on custom amplicon sequencing

(2014) Nathan R. Campbell et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A global database of C4photosynthesis in grasses

(2014) Colin P. Osborne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Future of Endemic Flora of Biodiversity Hotspots in India

(2014) Vishwas Sudhir Chitale et al.   PLoS One

The idiosyncrasies of place: geographic variation in the climate–distribution relationships of the American pika

(2013) Mackenzie R. Jeffress et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Evolutionary History of Lagomorphs in Response to Global Environmental Change

(2013) Deyan Ge et al.   PLoS One

Forage selection by Royle's pika (Ochotona roylei) in the western Himalaya, India

(2013) Sabuj Bhattacharyya et al.   ZOOLOGY

The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

(2012) Mary Susanne Wisz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Not-so-splendid isolation: modeling climate-mediated range collapse of a montane mammal Ochotona princeps across numerous ecoregions

(2012) Michael T. Calkins et al.   ECOGRAPHY

DNA from soil mirrors plant taxonomic and growth form diversity

(2012) N. G. YOCCOZ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Improving PCR detection of prey in molecular diet studies: importance of group-specific primer set selection and extraction protocol performances

(2012) Diane Zarzoso-Lacoste et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Did the expansion of C4 plants drive extinction and massive range contraction of micromammals? Inferences from food preference and historical biogeography of pikas

(2012) Deyan Ge et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Climate change impacts on body size and food web structure on mountain ecosystems

(2012) M. Lurgi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Widespread Climate Change in the Himalayas and Associated Changes in Local Ecosystems

(2012) Uttam Babu Shrestha et al.   PLoS One

Dispersal will limit ability of mammals to track climate change in the Western Hemisphere

(2012) C. A. Schloss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies

(2011) T. Magoc et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

On the generality of a climate-mediated shift in the distribution of the American pika (Ochotona princeps)

(2011) Liesl P Erb et al.   ECOLOGY

Refining the DNA barcode for land plants

(2011) P. M. Hollingsworth   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Testing alternative models of climate-mediated extirpations

(2010) Erik A. Beever et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Distribution of American pikas in a low-elevation lava landscape: conservation implications from the range periphery

(2010) Thomas J. Rodhouse et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Modeling contemporary range retraction in Great Basin pikas (Ochotona princeps) using data on microclimate and microhabitat

(2010) Jennifer L. Wilkening et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Nutrition, ecology and nutritional ecology: toward an integrated framework

(2009) David Raubenheimer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Isolation and introgression in the Intermountain West: contrasting gene genealogies reveal the complex biogeographic history of the American pika (Ochotona princeps)

(2009) Kurt E. Galbreath et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A strong genetic footprint of the re-introduction history of Alpine ibex (Capra ibex ibex)

(2009) IRIS BIEBACH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

(2009) W. J. Kress et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A DNA barcode for land plants

(2009) et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

(2009) Benjamin M. Bolker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of Leaf Size on Forage Selection by Collared Pikas, Ochotona Collaris

(2008) James M. G. Hudson et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PHENOLOGY, FROST DAMAGE, AND FLORAL ABUNDANCE OF MONTANE WILDFLOWERS

(2008) David W. Inouye   ECOLOGY

Lineage diversification and historical demography of a sky island salamander,Plethodon ouachitae, from the Interior Highlands

(2008) DONALD B. SHEPARD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA

(2008) C. Moritz et al.   SCIENCE