Caribou and muskoxen significantly affect Arctic plant growth, revealing their overlooked role in climate impacts.
The story of Arctic greening has overlooked some main characters. At center stage are climate change and warming temperatures ...
A new study highlights the importance of caribou and muskoxen to the greening Arctic tundra, linking grazing with plant phenology and abundance in the Arctic tundra. The story of Arctic greening ...
Arctic tundra plants must adapt to the cold, dark conditions of the tundra as the sun does not rise during the winter months.
The Nedre Sassendalen station on the high-Arctic tundra of Svalbard had a 102-day growing season with an average temperature ...
The Arctic is warming faster than any other area ... surface to improve representations of permafrost and hydrology, tundra plants, microbes and landscapes — all based on Alaska observations.
Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees' ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But, an international group of ...
Here I studied the abundance and variety of tundra plants. Today, the Arctic has already blown past 2 C of warming. Understanding the effects of climate change on this island could provide ...