Biomes are the world's major habitats ... and permafrost. Arctic tundra plants must adapt to the cold, dark conditions of the ...

The dominant plants are phanerophytes - trees ... and low-growing perennial shrubs. The tundra biome contains only about 3% of the world’s flora. Up to 60% of the flora can be made up of ...

Each biome has characteristics that make it unique, for example Alaska is a type of tundra. The animals and plants have to be really tough to survive the freezing conditions. Deserts are dry and ...

Wildlife presenter Ferne Corrigan takes a look at the Arctic tundra and how plants and animals have adapted to live in this biome. Ferne describes the location of the tundra biomes around the ...

Landscape fires trigger soil erosion processes: the tundra's upper cover, being left without plant protection, warms up faster and deeper, which leads to a significant degradation of the permafrost.