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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Tundra soil carbon is vulnerable to rapid microbial decomposition under climate warming. Nature Climate Change , 2016; DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2940 Cite This Page : ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...