Mountain goats, sheep, marmots, and birds live in mountain—or alpine—tundra and feed on the low-lying plants and insects. Hardy flora like cushion plants survive in the mountain zones by ...

A recent study has found that climate change is altering Arctic plant composition, with some species declining in response to warmer temperatures, while others flourish. Researchers studied over 2,000 ...

We identify biomes by the vegetation and animals that populate them and determine the location of each by the regional climate. The tundra biome is characterized by extremely cold temperatures and ...

Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It's a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers.

The results revealed strong, consistent plant functional trait-environment relationships across the four tundra ecosystems. "This is important because plant functional traits inform us how plants ...

Periglacial vegetation dynamics in Arctic Russia: decadal analysis of tundra regeneration on landslides with time series satellite imagery. Environmental Research Letters , 2020; DOI: 10.1088/1748 ...

Tundra ecosystems, present in northern arctic and alpine regions, lack trees but have an abundance of shrubs, grasses and mosses. “Tundra plants grow slowly, trapping carbon below ground,” explains ...

A common plant of the tundra biome, cotton grass is a herbaceous perennial with slender skinny leaves that look like grass. The stems grow anywhere from eight to 28 inches tall with three to five ...

But the tundra was very dry in 2007 and fire-fueling winds kicked up the blaze. During this single event, the immediate combustion of plants and soils and the thawing of frozen soils injected an ...

Ecologist Isla Myers-Smith researches how tundra plants respond to climate change and what it means for future ecosystems. While she's mostly worked in the Canadian Arctic, for the last two years ...