I am a biologist who focuses on the response of ecosystems to climate change including tundra ecosystems. For the past five years, my colleagues, students and I have tracked vegetation changes at ...

Vegetation change has been observed across Arctic and boreal ... Specific topics to be addressed include: Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic tundra and boreal forest greening versus browning · ...

"Our observations now show that the Arctic tundra, which is experiencing warming ... Wildfires not only combust vegetation and soil organic matter, releasing carbon into the atmosphere, but ...

Among the pioneer plants that were the first to appear on ... of frozen soils in post-pyrogenic landscapes in the sub-Arctic tundra, point to thermal anomalies in the permafrost that have ...

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’.

Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land surface — is thawing in many parts of the Arctic. [1] As permafrost thaws, it releases the powerful greenhouse gas ...

the air in the Arctic tundra was anything but arctic. It was a windless and muggy 72-degree day. Under the hazy blue sky, the crisp aroma of Labrador tea plants perfumed the soggy Alaskan bush.