Accordion side navigation American Pika California Pika Consortium Gallery CPC Meetings and Events Summer 2011 Meeting and Field Trip, July 31 - Aug 1, 2011 Field Trip Report - Connie Millar (PDF) Maps - Connie Millar (PDF) Overall Decline in Patch Occupancy at Bodie SHP - Lyle Nichols (PDF) Field Trip Graphics - Connie Millar (PDF) Percent Patch Occupation by Year - Andrew Smith (PF) Winter 2011 Meeting of the California Pika Consortium, February 11, 2011 Riverside, CA - 2/11/2011 Meeting Summary Report (PDF) Meeting Agenda (PDF) Meeting Presentations Topic/Title Speaker/Facilitator Introduction (PDF) Scott Osborn Round Robin Updates Deana Clifford Pika Surveys in CDFW Region 2 (PDF) Joseph Stewart & David Wright Bodie Update (PDF) Andrew Smith Health and Handling Studies (verbal update - no slides) Deana Clifford & Janet Foley Graph-Theoretical Analysis (PDF) Bob Westfall Belding’s Ground Squirrel Update (PDF) Toni Lyn Morelli Update on CESA Petition (verbal update - no slides) Shaye Wolf National Park Service Pika Habitat Occupancy Study: Preliminary Results from Eight Parks (PDF) Mackenzie Jeffress & Chris Ray Dynamics of Pika Distribution in the Hydrographic Great Basin, Over the Last Century (PDF) Erik Beever Spatial Relationships and Social Organization in Pikas (PDF) Andrew Smith Status of Pika Populations in the Bodie Hills (PDF) Lyle Nichols Pikas, Cows, and Weasels (PDF) Connie Millar Citizen Science Monitoring (web demo - no slides) Scott Loarie Lunch Topic/Title Speaker/Facilitator Pika Population Status and Threats - Facilitated Discussion Scott Osborn 1. Sierra Nevada populations (PDF), 2 (PDF) 2. Southern Cascades populations (PDF) (PDF) 3. Great Basin populations (PDF) 4. Bodie populations (PDF), 2 (PDF) 5. Pika ecological resilience (PDF) Next steps for the CPC (PDF) Connie Millar Closing remarks Toni Lyn Morelli Methods for Assessing Pika Distribution and Population Status, July 1 2010, Sacramento The CPC Committee held a meeting on July 1, 2010, for California pika researchers to discuss survey protocols and monitoring methods for pika. An assessment of areas where monitoring and surveys are needed was made, and methods for safely handling pikas during field research were discussed. CPC Meeting Agenda and Information (PDF) Pika Survey Methods - USFS (PDF) Pka Survey Methods -NPS (PDF) Meeting Report (PDF) Presentation List The Science Locator Project Sean Finn, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (web application demonstration) Surveying Spatial Distribution: Developing a Standard Rapid Assessment Method for American Pika (PDF) Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service Monitoring Temporal Status of American Pika Populations; Developing a Standard Approach Toni Lyn Morelli, University of California, Berkeley (presentation not available) Sampling Design For Estimating Density, Occupancy, And Habitat Associations Of Alpine Mammals In The Sierra Nevada And White Mountains (PDF) Rob Klinger, USGS Western Ecological Research Center Updates on Methods for Handling American Pika in Native Environments; Opportunities and Challenges for Research and Monitoring (PDF) Janet Foley, Katryna Fleer, and Peter Pascoe University of California, Davis Deanna Clifford, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Toni Lyn Morelli, University of California, Berkeley The American Pika's Capacity for Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, Symposium at The Wildlife Society - Western Section Annual Conference, January 29, 2010 Friday Morning, January 29, 2010 Charter Oak Ballroom B&C Chairs: Toni Lyn Morelli, University of California, Berkeley David Wright, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Time Title & Speakers 9:15 to 9:20 am Introductions and announcements 9:20 to 9:40 am Introduction to the California Pika Consortium (PDF) by Toni Lyn Morelli 9:40 to 10:00 am Investigating the Status of American Pika (Ochotona princeps) at Historic Northern Sierra Sites (PDF) by David H. Wright 10:00 to 10:20 am Resurveying Historic Pika Populations in California: Results and Lessons from the Grinnell Resurvey Project (PDF) by John D. Perrine* and James L. Patton 10:20 to 10:40 am Morning Break 10:40 to 11:00 am Establishing the Baseline: Historical Biogeography of the American Pika (PDF) by Kurt Galbreath 11:00 to 11:20 am A Passel of Pikas in Lava Beds at Low Elevation (PDF) by Chris Ray 11:20 to 11:40 am Dispersal in Fragmented Habitats: Using Genetic Markers to Understand Long Term Movement Patterns (PDF) by Mary M. Peacock*, Susan J. Merideth, Chris Ray, Eileen Hickey and Peter F. Brussard 11:40 to 12:00 pm Thermal Regimes of Talus Fields Enhance American Pika’s Resilience to Warming (PDF) by Constance I. Millar; Robert D. Westfall*; Andrew Smith 12:00 to 1:15 pm Lunch Break 1:15 to 1:20 pm Introductions and announcements 1:20 pm to 1:40 pm Adaptive Capacity of Pikas: Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Changing Microclimate (PDF) by Edward W. West 1:40 to 2:00 pm Increasingly Rapid Ecoregional Decline of a Montane Mammal: Contemporary Climate Change Alters Extinction Dynamics by Erik Beever, Jennifer Wilkening, Chris Ray, Philip Mote, and Peter F. Brussard 2:00 to 2:20 pm Climate Threats to the American Pika: Modeling Historical Persistence for 21st Century Projections (PDF) by Scott Loarie 2:40 to 3:00 pm Protecting the American Pika under the Federal and California Endangered Species Acts (PDF) by Shaye Wolf 3:00 to 4:00 Group Discussion California Pika Summit, November 10, 2009 The first California Pika Summit held November 10, 2009, in Davis, CA. Agenda (PDF) Meeting Notes (PDF) Presentations Klinger, Robert. The "Rapture Hypothesis" Scenario (PDF) Loarie, Scott and others. Climate threats to the American Pika (PDF) Millar, Connie and Bob Westfall. Distribution, Geomorphology, & Thermal Relationships of American Pika in the Sierra Nevada & Great Basin (PDF) Morelli, Toni Lyn and Deana Clifford. Pika Handling (PDF) Nichols, Lyle. Dating Bodie Hills Pika Extinctions using Fecal Pellets (PDF) Osborn, Scott and Dale Steele. Update on California Listing Petition for Pika (PDF) Patton, James. Pika - Yosemite transect Grinnell Resurvey Project (PDF) Peacock, Mary. Genetic Tools for Inference of Population Structure (PDF) Perrine, John. Locating and resurveying the Grinnell-era pika locations in the Lassen Transect region of northern California (PDF) Ray, Chris. A low-elevation haven: Exploring the distribution of the American pika within Lava Beds National Monument, CA (PDF) Roninger, Trisha. American Pika 12-month Status Review (PDF) Smith, Andrew. Bodie Pikas What They Have to Tell Us (PDF) Hafner, David and Andrew Smith. Revision of the Subspecies of the American Pika, Ochotona princeps (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae) (PDF) Stermer, Chris. Pika Distribution in California (PDF) West, Ed. Can Pikas Adapt to Climate Change? A 30-Year Perspective (PDF) Wolfe, Shaye. Protecting the Pika under the Federal and California Endangered Species Act (PDF) Wright, David. Status of Pika at Historic Northern Sierra Sites (PDF) Participant Contact and Interest List (PDF) Full Meeting Report (PDF) (includes Agenda, Meeting Notes, and Participant Interest and Contact List) Sketch map of California Pika Research Study Areas