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Newstrack India: A study has found that contemporary climate change is affecting extinction rates.
Local extinction rates of American pikas have increased nearly five-fold in the last 10 years, and the rate at which the climate-sensitive species is moving up mountain slopes has increased 11-fold, since the 20th century.
The research strongly suggests that the American pika's distribution throughout the Great Basin is changing at an increasingly rapid rate.
The pika (Ochotona princeps), a small, hamster-looking......
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Extinction rates being altered by contemporary climate change
Posted by Newstrack India: None Given on April 22nd, 2011
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