Mountain goats, sheep, marmots, and birds live in mountain—or alpine—tundra and feed on the low-lying plants and insects. Hardy flora like cushion plants survive in the mountain zones by ...

which produces a vegetation cover for the Earth deciding where tundra, savannahs, temperate and tropical forests would occur. This data, and the effects on climate, including variables like ...

"The tundra has no place else to go, and it will largely disappear from the Alaskan landscape, along with the related plant ... could yield to a maritime and temperate conifer forest much like ...

Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It's a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers.

Below is information on the climate, vegetation, and animals found in grassland biomes. Temperate grasslands are areas of open grassy plains that are sparsely populated with trees. Various names ...

The biome concept organizes large ... temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, Mediterranean scrub, coniferous forests, and tundra (Figure 4). Tropical forests are found in areas ...

The boreal forest separates the tundra from the temperate forest. The alternative names for the boreal forest biome are subalpine and taiga. Montane is a term for a forest on mid-level elevations ...

In cold temperature states, tropical latitudes feature desert, while at higher latitudes cold-temperate vegetation and tundra appear. Hot states feature temperate vegetation at polar latitudes and ...