Surviving winter on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Pikas suppress energy demands and exploit yak feces to survive winter

Dissociation of Adaptive Thermogenesis from Glucose Homeostasis in Microbiome-Deficient Mice

(2020) Tibor I. Krisko et al.   Cell Metabolism

Optimisation of energetic and reproductive gains explains behavioural responses to environmental variation across seasons and years

(2020) E. K. Studd et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Activity Patterns and Foraging Behavior of American Pikas (Ochotona princeps) Differ between Craters of the Moon and Alpine Talus in Idaho

(2020) Meghan J. Camp et al.   WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST

Body temperature, heart rate, and activity patterns of two boreal homeotherms in winter: homeostasis, allostasis, and ecological coexistence

(2020) Allyson K. Menzies et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Environment and host species identity shape gut microbiota diversity in sympatric herbivorous mammals

(2020) Haibo Fu et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Effects of thyroid hormones and cold acclimation on the energy metabolism of the striped hamster (Cricetulus barabensis)

(2019) Jing Wen et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Microbiota Depletion Impairs Thermogenesis of Brown Adipose Tissue and Browning of White Adipose Tissue

(2019) Baoguo Li et al.   Cell Reports

Environmental heterogeneity affects seasonal variation in thyroid hormone physiology of free-living arctic ground squirrels

(2019) Cory Williams et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

At thermoneutrality, acute thyroxine-induced thermogenesis and pyrexia are independent of UCP1

(2019) Claudia Dittner et al.   Molecular Metabolism

Among-population divergence in personality is linked to altitude in plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae)

(2019) Jiapeng Qu et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Summer habitat use of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) in response to winter livestock grazing in the alpine steppe Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Badingquiying et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Chronic cold exposure results in subcutaneous adipose tissue browning and altered global metabolism in Qinghai-Tibetan plateau pika ( Ochotona curzoniae )

(2018) Jia Li et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

The disturbance and disturbance intensity of small and semi-fossorial herbivores alter the belowground bud density of graminoids in alpine meadows

(2018) Qian Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Functional-trait ecology of the plateau pika Ochotona curzoniae (Hodgson, 1858) in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau ecosystem

(2018) Andrew T. SMITH et al.   Integrative Zoology

Architecture Characteristics of Burrow System of Plateau Pika, Ochotona curzoniae

(2018) Wanrong Wei et al.   PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Seasonal temperature acclimatization in a semi-fossorial mammal and the role of burrows as thermal refuges

(2018) Charlotte R. Milling et al.   PeerJ

Thyroid hormones mediate metabolic rate and oxidative, anti-oxidative balance at different temperatures in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)

(2018) Saeid Khakisahneh et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY

Five-year population dynamics of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) on the east of Tibetan Plateau

(2017) Jiapeng Qu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Organizing the pantry: cache management improves quality of overwinter food stores in a montane mammal

(2017) Rhiannon P Jakopak et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Plateau pika disturbances alter plant productivity and soil nutrients in alpine meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

(2017) Xiao Pan Pang et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Poisoning the pika: must protection of grasslands be at the expense of biodiversity?

(2017) Lan Wu et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Effects of predation risk on behavior, hormone levels, and reproductive success of plateau pikas

(2017) Baofa Yin et al.   Ecosphere

Effects of climate change on the reproduction and offspring sex ratio of plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) on the Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Jiapeng Qu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Both thyroid hormone levels and resting metabolic rate decrease in African striped mice when food availability decreases

(2016) Rebecca Rimbach et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Basking hamsters reduce resting metabolism, body temperature and energy costs during rewarming from torpor

(2016) Fritz Geiser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Thyroid hormones correlate with field metabolic rate in ponies,Equus ferus caballus

(2016) Lea Brinkmann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Plateau PikaOchotona curzoniaePoisoning Campaign Reduces Carnivore Abundance in Southern Qinghai, China

(2016) Badingqiuying et al.   MAMMAL STUDY

Effects of plateau pika activities on seasonal plant biomass and soil properties in the alpine meadow ecosystems of the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Feida Sun et al.   GRASSLAND SCIENCE

Thyroid hormone status affects expression of daily torpor and gene transcription in Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)

(2015) Jonathan H.H. Bank et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Energy regulation in context: Free-living female arctic ground squirrels modulate the relationship between thyroid hormones and activity among life history stages

(2015) Kathryn Wilsterman et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Effects of plateau pika activities on seasonal plant biomass and soil properties in the alpine meadow ecosystems of the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Feida Sun et al.   GRASSLAND SCIENCE

Winter Is Coming: Seasonal Variation in Resting Metabolic Rate of the European Badger (Meles meles)

(2015) David W. McClune et al.   PLoS One

Daily torpor and hibernation in birds and mammals

(2014) Thomas Ruf et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

(2014) Fernando Valladares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dietary plasticity in pikas as a strategy for atypical resource landscapes

(2014) Johanna Varner et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Evidence that the Tibetan fox is an obligate predator of the plateau pika: conservation implications

(2014) Richard B. Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

A review of formation mechanism and restoration measures of “black-soil-type” degraded grassland in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2013) Quan-Min Dong et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Limits to sustained energy intake. XV. Effects of wheel running on the energy budget during lactation

(2013) Z.-J. Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Demographic responses of plateau pikas to vegetation cover and land use in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China

(2013) Migmar Wangdwei et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

PARASITE SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH WILD PLATEAU PIKA (OCHOTONA CURZONIAE) IN SOUTHEASTERN QINGHAI PROVINCE, CHINA

(2013) Chengmin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Changing seasonality and phenological responses of free-living male arctic ground squirrels: the importance of sex

(2013) M. J. Sheriff et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Thyroid Hormones Correlate with Basal Metabolic Rate but Not Field Metabolic Rate in a Wild Bird Species

(2013) Jorg Welcker et al.   PLoS One

Thyroid hormones correlate with resting metabolic rate, not daily energy expenditure, in two charadriiform seabirds

(2013) K. H. Elliott et al.   Biology Open

Do red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) use daily torpor during winter?

(2012) R. Mark Brigham et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Seasonal stage differences overwhelm environmental and individual factors as determinants of energy expenditure in free-ranging red squirrels

(2012) Quinn E. Fletcher et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Thermoregulatory changes anticipate hibernation onset by 45 days: data from free-living arctic ground squirrels

(2012) Michael J. Sheriff et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Life history of the plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) in alpine meadows of the Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Jiapeng Qu et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Seasonal changes in body mass, energy intake and thermogenesis in Maximowiczi’s voles (Microtus maximowiczii) from the Inner Mongolian grassland

(2011) Jing-Feng Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Basking behaviour and torpor use in free-rangingPlanigale gilesi

(2010) Lisa Warnecke et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Maximal heat dissipation capacity and hyperthermia risk: neglected key factors in the ecology of endotherms

(2010) John R. Speakman et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Advantage to lower body temperatures for a small mammal (Rattus fuscipes) experiencing chronic cold

(2010) Elsa Jane Glanville et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

The cold shoulder: free-ranging snowshoe hares maintain a low cost of living in cold climates

(2009) Michael J. Sheriff et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Rangeland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau: A review of the evidence of its magnitude and causes

(2009) R.B. Harris   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Livestock grazing, plateau pikas and the conservation of avian biodiversity on the Tibetan plateau

(2008) Anthony D. Arthur et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Importance of Physiological Limits in Determining Biogeographical Range Shifts due to Global Climate Change: The Heat‐Shock Response

(2008) Lars Tomanek   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY