The creeping arctic ... tundra rose grows successfully in a wide range of conditions and temperatures. Saskatoon berry plants have something to offer no matter the time of year, from dainty white ...

Arctic tundra plants must adapt ... polar bears, white foxes, lemmings, Arctic hares, wolverines, caribou, migrating birds, mosquitoes, and black flies. Animals of the alpine tundra biome migrate ...

a postdoctoral researcher in tundra biodiversity at the University of Edinburgh. “Warmer temperatures are bringing in more species, but not everywhere. Shrubs are reshaping the Arctic ecosystem, but ...

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 ...

The decades-long investigation, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, compiled data from 1981 to 2022 on more than 2,000 plant communities across the Arctic tundra. Analysis revealed ...

Green summer tundra ... the 2024 Arctic Report Card. (Photo by Craig McCaa/U.S. Bureau of Land Management) Winter emissions, which occur when there is little or no sunlight to enable plant ...

That's a major transition that could reap consequences on human, plant and ... focus of the latest Arctic evaluation was the effects of warmer weather and wildfires on the tundra, a far-northern ...

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the Arctic region to release more carbon dioxide and methane than its plants remove. The tundra is now a global carbon emitter. Cladonia stellaris ...

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 ...