Joseph Grinnell
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A record of where Yosemite mammals lived
Grinnell and his colleagues recorded animals along a route that climbed through Yosemite and across the Sierra Nevada. A later team retraced the survey and found that about half of the small-mammal species it studied had shifted at least one end of their elevation range uphill. The old records made it possible to tell which species had moved and which had stayed put.
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