An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last ...

These trees were once part of a thriving forest, but then the cooling climate entombed them under thick layers of mountain ...

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 ...

Scientists warn that the Siberian tundra could disappear by the year 2500 if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced. The ...

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 ...

In recent years, the Arctic tundra’s ability to emit less and absorb more carbon has taken a hit. A new analysis, which incorporated more data and better methods of examination, confirmed that the eco ...

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 ...