Two decades of summer warming in an Alaskan tundra ecosystem increased plant biomass and woody dominance, indirectly increased winter soil temperature, homogenized the soil trophic structure and ...

In 2007 the largest recorded tundra fire ... Little is known about the effects of fire on carbon storage and cycling in tundra ecosystems. Cool, wet soils ... as a wall of smoke on the horizon.

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Depending on soil types, water can remain in liquid form at temperatures as low as minus-5 degrees Celsius. Water freezes more quickly in coarser soils, but more slowly if soils are very fine-grained.

Natalie Boelmen says it’s not just ice disappearing from under polar bears; the thawing of the vast Arctic tundra, which locks huge amounts of carbon in its frozen soils poses ecological threat ...

Single trees in the tundra near Lake Nutenvut in Keerveem, Russia. Stefan Kruse/Zenger. Herzschuh and her team warn that only consistent, global climate protection measures will allow around 30 ...

In 2007 the largest recorded tundra fire in the circumpolar arctic released approximately as much carbon into the atmosphere as the tundra has stored in the previous 50 years, say scientists in ...

As the climate warms in the Arctic, shrubs expand towards higher latitudes and altitudes. Researchers investigated the impacts of dwarf shrubs on tundra soils in the sub-Arctic Fennoscandia.

Natalie Boelmen says it’s not just ice disappearing from under polar bears; the thawing of the vast Arctic tundra, which locks huge amounts of carbon in its frozen soils poses ecological threat ...