From rising oceans to species extinction, climate change is affecting our world in numerous ways. Now, an international team of researchers has revealed the wide-ranging impact that the changing ...

Warming temperatures are causing plants across alpine and arctic environments to stay green longer and reproduce earlier, scientists find Across the tundra, warming temperatures are causing plants to ...

Biomes are the world's major habitats. 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 ...

Location: Tundra biome. Time period: Data collected between 1964 and 2016. Major taxa studied: 295 tundra vascular plant species. Methods: We compiled a database of six plant traits (plant height, ...

Traditional models of nutrient cycling assume that soil microorganisms must decompose organic matter, releasing inorganic N, to make N available to plants. Several lines of evidence have raised doubts ...

Climate warming reduces the number of plant species in the tundra, but plant-eating animals, such as reindeer and voles, can turn this negative effect into something positive. Climate warming reduces ...

A week ago Sunday, Arctic sea ice cover reached its lowest extent ever recorded. For good reason, there has been significant media focus on how a warming sea gobbles up the ice that is polar bear ...

Biomes are large-scale ecosystems. The surface of the Earth can be divided according to biomes. Tundra Cold, dry climates found almost entirely in the far north of the planet. Permafrost prevents ...