With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster than ...

The decades-long investigation, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, compiled data from 1981 to 2022 on more than 2,000 plant communities across the Arctic tundra. Analysis revealed ...

These plants ... Arctic tundra only where snow melted early. Now they push onto windswept ridges because snow lies for fewer days each year. Where they thicken, their leaves intercept sunlight that ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

a postdoctoral researcher in tundra biodiversity at the University of Edinburgh. “Warmer temperatures are bringing in more species, but not everywhere. Shrubs are reshaping the Arctic ecosystem, but ...

Rapid climate change is upending plant ... than the Arctic, and some species may disappear completely from large areas," says Bjorkman. The unique vegetation of the Arctic tundra is important ...

while the Arctic has warmed at nearly twice that rate. At the same time, higher temperatures are spurring the northward march of shrubby vegetation onto the open tundra; the dark, leafy plants soak up ...

Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the Arctic region to release more carbon dioxide and methane than its plants remove. The tundra is now a global carbon emitter. Cladonia stellaris ...

Tundra describes the Arctic’s tree-less plains, where shrubs, grasses, and mosses grow and take in carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. Plants eventually release that CO2 back into the ...

After storing carbon dioxide for millennia in frozen soil, the Arctic tundra has now become a source ... This warming stimulates plant growth, removing carbon from the atmosphere, but also causes ...

That's a major transition that could reap consequences on human, plant and ... focus of the latest Arctic evaluation was the effects of warmer weather and wildfires on the tundra, a far-northern ...