The Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon dioxide ... emphasizing numerous changes affecting both ecosystems and human communities. The thawing permafrost is a significant factor in this ...

Satellite images show the Arctic has been getting greener as temperatures in the far northern region rise three times faster than the global average. Some theories suggest that this “Arctic greening” ...

At the same time, Arctic terrestrial ecosystems have remained a consistent ... with the report finding tundra caribou numbers have decreased by 65 percent over the past two to three decades ...

a plant indigenous to tundra ecosystems in Alaska. Wilkes undergraduates are participating in the project as field assistants, spending up to 10 weeks during the summer at the Toolik Lake Field ...

Observed ecosystem-level changes in the Arctic include the disappearance ... which has been linked to declines of the smaller, less dominant tundra-dwelling Arctic fox. DECLINES AND EXTINCTIONS.

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

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’.

Environment and history of Bol’shezemel’skaya Tundra. Geography of the study area and the ... The influence of Holocene treeline advance and retreat on an arctic lake ecosystem: A multi-proxy study ...

This sea ice is the foundation of an entire ecosystem ... Area is not immune to climate change. As the Arctic summer grows longer and warmer, tundra shrubs grow taller and the Arctic becomes ...

The snowy white tundra swan breeds in the Arctic and migrates many miles to winter on North America's Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, bays, and lakes. The eastern population frequents the ...

Climate change and greenhouse gas emission in Arctic tundra: the role of vegetation change on CO2 ... My own research includes work on Peak District ecosystems, and at level 2, we use this area to ...