Warming temperatures are causing plants across alpine and arctic environments to stay green longer and reproduce earlier, scientists find Across the tundra, warming temperatures are causing plants to ...

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 ...

The Swedish IBP/PT Tundra Biome Project (1970-1974) formed part of an international ecological effort that involved 11 countries and aimed at obtaining basic information on the productivity of the ...

The large 1950s fires that burned >5500 km^2 of land across a south-to-north climatic gradient in northern Québec provide an opportunity to evaluate the role of fire in forest-tundra development on a ...

"The Arctic tundra is one of the coldest biomes on Earth, and it's also one of the most rapidly warming," said Logan Berner, a global change ecologist with Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, ...

From rising oceans to species extinction, climate change is affecting our world in numerous ways. Now, an international team of researchers has revealed the wide-ranging impact that the changing ...