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Publishing the results of their study Thursday in the journal Science, the researchers found that, although the diversity of plant life on the Arctic tundra was declining, the decline was almost twice ...

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 ...

The largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet—created by the University of St Andrews—has had a major new release. The BioTIME database offers unprecedented insight into how biodiversity ...

Because in other biomes, we are,” said lead author Mariana García Criado, a postdoctoral researcher in tundra biodiversity at the University of Edinburgh. “But the Arctic is a special and ...

The diversity of local communities in ... They analyzed the communities, typical for the local sub-Arctic tundra. "The fire has destroyed almost the entire ground cover - the mosses and lichens ...

Tundra as a biome is defined by its lack of ... Warmer weather is necessary for forest growth, but so is rainfall and biodiversity. The return of such woodlands isn’t necessarily a desired ...