Also referred to as giant spearmoss or giant calliergon moss, arctic moss is an aquatic plant that grows both on the bottom of tundra lakes and around bogs. Like other mosses, arctic moss has tiny ...

The decades-long investigation, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, compiled data from 1981 to 2022 on more than 2,000 plant communities across the Arctic tundra. Analysis revealed ...

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 ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

But there are a number of plants and animals that still call this unforgiving ecosystem their home. There are three types of tundra biomes: Arctic tundra, Antarctic tundra, and Alpine tundra.

Tundra ecosystems are treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains ... or alpine—tundra and feed on the low-lying plants and insects. Hardy flora like cushion plants ...

Mariana García Criado, a postdoctoral researcher in tundra biodiversity at the University of Edinburgh. “Warmer temperatures are bringing in more species, but not everywhere. Shrubs are reshaping the ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster ...

Arctic tundra, which for thousands of years ... in Alaska’s Cape Krusenstern National Monument on Aug. 31, 2008. Tundra plants absorb atmospheric carbon in the summer, when they use sunlight ...

A new study highlights the importance of caribou and muskoxen to the greening Arctic tundra, linking grazing with plant phenology and abundance in the Arctic tundra. The story of Arctic greening ...

When the plants die, this carbon is entombed in the ... balmier air temperatures are thawing Arctic tundra, activating carbon-hungry microbes, and more vegetation is being burned up by wildfires.