In an effort to protect grasslands, a plan to cull pikas and zokors in China is having the opposite effect, say scientists. We've seen it time and time again. When you remove a keystone species ...
These include the mountain-dwelling herbivores, the plateau pika, and another small rodent, the zokor. Both are keystone species and are known as ecosystem engineers due to their modification of ...
According to a recent study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, current measures to protect grasslands in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau – which were introduced in 2000 and focus on the ...