Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...

An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

The tundra biome contains only about 3% of the ... Soils are low in nutrients due to slow decomposition rates and plants retain nutrients in long-lived evergreen tissues. Nitrogen fixation by ...

The temporal and spatial snow cover dynamics is the primary factor controlling the plant communities' composition and biogeochemical cycles in arctic and alpine tundra. However, the relationships ...

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 ...

Tundra swan subspecies also winter in Europe ... These large birds feed by dipping their heads underwater to pluck aquatic plants, tubers, and roots. They also eat shellfish and are developing ...

Among the pioneer plants that were the first to appear on ... in insects and arachnids can serve as an indicator of the tundra bio-geo-cenoses' disturbance. On the fire sites, we have noted ...

The newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum possesses a potentially highly flexible cell wall: When water is ...