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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The tundra biome is huge, covering 15% more of the Earth’s surface than all 50 U.S. states combined. Currently, it stores a significant proportion of the Earth’s carbon in its permanently ...

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome. Nature Communications, 2020; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18479-5 ...

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 model suggests that moss-dominated tundra is favored when grazing is reduced below levels that are in equilibrium with climate and vegetation. Together these results indicate that mammalian ...

Plants that barely reached researchers' ankles now tickle their shins. Below ground in wetland areas, researchers found 10 times as much biomass. "That's an extremely rapid change," says Henry.