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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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.

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 Arctic tundra warms, soil microbes likely will ramp up CO 2 production. Understanding the tiny organisms' behavior could help with climate change predictions.

Tundra soil can be anywhere from 10 to 40 inches deep (25 to 100 cm)! ... Summer days last 24 hours, yet the sun remains low on the horizon. During the winter, the opposite occurs, ...

Scientists who studied the Alaskan tundra have warned that global warming could make microbes which live in the soil release more greenhouse gases. The permafrost soils on the northern latitude ...

Findings from one of the first comprehensive field studies by a collaborative team of researchers demonstrate the active layer microbiome of tundra soil was significantly altered after only 1.5 ...

The study is a part of Kemppinen’s PhD thesis Soil moisture and its importance for tundra plants at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. The study and data are openly available: Julia ...