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 ...

Vegetation change has been observed across Arctic and boreal ... Specific topics to be addressed include: Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic tundra and boreal forest greening versus browning · ...

Land-based carbon sinks help slow global warming by absorbing excess heat-trapping CO2 emissions. Read more at ...

Among the pioneer plants that were the first to appear on ... of frozen soils in post-pyrogenic landscapes in the sub-Arctic tundra, point to thermal anomalies in the permafrost that have ...

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

The fact that it’s freezing cold on your doorstep cannot be taken as proof that global warming has stopped. The Arctic is ...

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’.

The flowering of plants, egg-laying of birds ... which has been linked to declines of the smaller, less dominant tundra-dwelling Arctic fox. DECLINES AND EXTINCTIONS. Climate change has already been ...

For a very long time, most researchers considered Arctic tundra a carbon sink, a place where more carbon is stored in frozen ground and new plants than is emitted. Part of that possible change is ...