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Fig. 3 | Evolution: Education and Outreach

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From: Climate change, collections and the classroom: using big data to tackle big problems

Fig. 3

Elevational range shifts of yosemite chipmunks. Two species of chipmunks have become the focus of efforts to understand interspecific differences in response to climate change in Yosemite National Park. Although the lodgepole chipmunk (Tamias speciosus) and the alpine chipmunk (Tamias alpinus) are closely related and co-occur in portions of the park, they display very different patterns of elevational range response to the past century of environmental change. While the alpine chipmunk has undergone a significant upward shift of its lower elevational range limit, the lodgepole chipmunk has experienced no significant change in its elevational distribution (Moritz et al. 2008; profile map of the Sierra Nevada modified from Grinnell and Storer 1924)

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