KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - savannahs and ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

I am a biologist who focuses on the response of ecosystems to climate change including tundra ecosystems. For the past five years, my colleagues, students and I have tracked vegetation changes at ...

Observed ecosystem-level changes in the Arctic include the disappearance of essential ... which has been linked to declines of the smaller, less dominant tundra-dwelling Arctic fox. DECLINES AND ...

Alaskan Tundra Ecosystem The Alaskan tundra comes with 23 new species of producers, consumers, and decomposers for our first arctic biodome. Polar bears, caribou, arctic hares, and more!

This sea ice is the foundation of an entire ecosystem ... Area is not immune to climate change. As the Arctic summer grows longer and warmer, tundra shrubs grow taller and the Arctic becomes ...

Fetcher and his students are processing the results of their Arctic visit. He is the principal investigator on a research team awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a ...

These changes are fundamentally altering the ecosystem. For thousands of years, the shrubby landscape of the Arctic tundra stored carbon, but wildfires and thawing permafrost mean that this region is ...

Climate change and greenhouse gas emission in Arctic tundra: the role of vegetation change on CO2 and CH4 fluxes (NERC funded ... My own research includes work on Peak District ecosystems, and at ...