Mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) and American pikas (Ochotona
princeps) are naturally co-occurring across
most of their overlapping distributions in
western N. America. The southern limit of
the natural range of mountain goats is in
Idaho, whereas American pikas occur
naturally as far south as New Mexico.
However, the mountain goat range has
been extended southwards with the
establishment of translocated subpopulations in Utah and Colorado.
These mountain goats now share habitat with pikas, providing an
opportunity to study potential ecological interactions between these two
alpine specialists near the southern limits of their current ranges.
Join Mallory Sandoval Lambert as she talks about how her research is
exploring this previously unstudied system through field-based
experimentation, with a focus on the La Sal Mountains in southern
Utah.
~ Mallory is a three year recipient of the CNHA Discovery Pool Grant ~