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 ...

For a study published in the journal Nature, the researchers analyzed more than 60,000 plant trait records from sites across tundra environments in Arctic ... she said. "White snow and ice reflect ...

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 ...

In winter, their white fur acts as camouflage to help ... Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan takes a look at the Arctic tundra and how plants and animals have adapted to live in this biome.

Ecologist Isla Myers-Smith researches how tundra plants respond to climate change and what it means for future ecosystems. While she's mostly worked in the Canadian Arctic, for the last two years ...

as bare spots on the tundra, favoured by the lichen that they like to eat, are overtaken by shrubs. “This has cascading effects for Arctic animals that depend on these plants, also for food ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...