Lightning and fires on the Arctic tundra seem to be on the rise. Jane Qiu meets the researchers learning from the scorched earth in Alaska. More than 20,000 lightning strikes were recorded on the ...

We employ a combination of long-term monitoring, modeling and experimental approaches in settings that range from alpine tundra to oak woodlands to grasslands ... Alternative states and positive ...

More information: Julia Kemppinen et al, Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01396-1 ...

Willard, Beatrice E. 1986-1988. Correspondence and curriculum vitae sent to Dr. Jean Langenheim in association with the project on women in ecology. Yost, Cheri. 2007. Willard, Bettie, Alpine Tundra ...

1. Fighting Climate Change The woolly mammoth’s natural habitat was the Arctic tundra, an ecosystem that’s now threatened by permafrost melting and rising temperatures. By reintroducing ...

Researchers working on the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX ... professor of plant ecology at the University of Gothenburg and for many years a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

DNA sequencing enabled them to identify fungi that may hold answers to other questions about the tundra ecology in Colorado and in other locations around the world.

Vegetation Ecology is a survey of physical and biological processes ... Course components –Background lectures, Field trip (Plains-to-tundra altitudinal transect), Field exercises, Readings, and ...

Once spread across the vast expanses of the Ice Age tundra, these majestic creatures dwindled as their habitat disappeared. The last known population lived in isolation on Wrangel Island ...

Many of the theories that underpin our current understanding of ecology were developed in the ... savannas in Zambia and South Africa, and tundra in Greenland, Alaska and Southern Patagonia.

The results published in Nature Ecology & Evolution indicate that these generalisable patterns do exist. The researchers collected field data on 217 species from nearly 7000 study plots.