The tundra biome contains only about 3% of the world’s flora. Up to 60% of the flora can be made up of long-lived hemicryptophytes. Windy conditions and low temperatures select for low growing ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Tyto Ecology: Alaskan Tundra Ecosystem The Alaskan tundra comes with 23 new species of producers, consumers, and decomposers for our first arctic biodome.

The Arctic tundra has historically helped reduce global emissions. But rising temperatures and wildfires in the region are changing that, scientists say.

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome? Lapland is a region of northern Scandinavia - part of the Arctic tundra. In Finnish the word ‘tundra’ means ‘treeless plain’.

There are lots of different ecosystems on Earth:including desert ecosystems;forest ecosystems;and tundra ecosystems. But all can be contained within three main categories:terrestrial ecosystems on ...

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) presents a roundup of six research articles recently published across its esteemed journals.

NorEcoFun group studies biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in Northern ecosystems – boreal forest and tundra. We focus on plant communities, which form the foundation of ecosystems. This ...

But is that really happening? I am a biologist who focuses on the response of ecosystems to climate change including tundra ecosystems. For the past five years, my colleagues, students and I have ...

The study revealed that in regions with little human impact, such as in the vast forest masses of North America or in Greenland's tundra, ecosystems typically contain over a third of potentially ...

"Our new data is the strongest confirmation yet that the ice in the center of the island vanished and was replaced by a tundra ecosystem," study lead author Paul Bierman, a geologist at the ...

A study recently published in Nature indicates that human activities have a negative effect on the biodiversity of wildlife hundreds of kilometres ...