Arctic hares, wolverines, caribou, migrating birds, mosquitoes, and black flies. Animals of the alpine tundra biome migrate to lower elevations in winter to escape the cold and find food.

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.

Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan takes a look at the Arctic tundra and how plants and animals have adapted to live in this biome. Ferne describes the location of the tundra biomes around the ...

Tundra ecosystems ... regions of the Arctic, the surface layer above the permafrost melts during the summer, and this forms bogs and shallow lakes that invite an explosion of animal life.

It discusses various biomes such as the Arctic tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest, grasslands, and deserts, detailing their characteristics, flora, and fauna.

A new review on zoonotic infections (diseases spread by animals) in the Canadian Arctic offers important guidance to clinicians, as the region gains global attention and climate change raises the ...

That's a major transition that could reap consequences on human, plant and animal ... Arctic evaluation was the effects of warmer weather and wildfires on the tundra, a far-northern biome that's ...

Ecologist Isla Myers-Smith researches how tundra ... end up in the Arctic, and the nutrients in their milk for their calves, all of which could impact caribou numbers. Other animals, like moose ...

For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures ... “While we can hope that many plants and animals will find pathways to adaptation as ice seals have so far, hope ...