Key factors influencing biomes include light and water availability. It discusses various biomes such as the Arctic tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest, grasslands ...

Arctic tundra plants must adapt to the cold, dark conditions of the tundra as the sun does not rise during the winter months. These plants experience brief growth periods during summer when ...

Dozens of wolverines trapped on the tundra by researchers and outfitted ... They’re cute and roly-poly.” In Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a wolverine feeds on a caribou killed ...

Wildlife in the Arctic is also being impacted by these changes. Summer heat is disrupting the movements and survival of ...

Even though his recent years’ work in Arctic Alaska has been focused on plants, he said encountering willows and other woody plants covering what used to be open tundra west of the Dalton ...

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 ...

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 ...