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 ...

Plants and animals in tundras Mountain goats, sheep, marmots, and birds live in mountain—or alpine—tundra and feed on the low-lying plants and insects.

Significantly, tundra regions are warming more rapidly than any other type of environment, or "biome", on Earth. "Temperatures in the Arctic have risen by about 1 degree Celsius [1.8 degrees ...

Across the tundra, warming temperatures are causing plants to stay greener longer and flower earlier—and that could reshape life there, according to new research led by the University of Colorado ...

The plants and animals that have made their home on the tundra biome have adapted incredibly to the long, cold winters and the short, but abundant, summers.

An increase in wooded plants in both savanna and tundra regions is caused by increased rainfall and temperatures that can be attributed to climate change, UK ecologists have concluded.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 35 (September 1, 2020), pp. 21480-21487 (8 pages) The Arctic is one of the least human-impacted parts of ...

The tundra biome is huge, covering 15% more of the Earth’s surface than all 50 U.S. states combined.

Taller plants on the tundra Published online 9 October 2018 Understanding vegetation changes on the tundra could improve predictions on the impacts of climate change. Sara Osman Plant trait ...