A nondescript, decrepit twist of gnarled wood found tucked between rocks in the Finnish tundra is a lot more than meets the ...

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 ...

What factors control "flipping" from greening to browning (or vice versa) in tundra ecosystems and at what timescales is this occurring? · Can we predict future northern latitude vegetation dynamics ...

But is that really happening? 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 ...

"By burning vegetation and soil organic matter, tundra fires release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and add pulses of greenhouse gases while accelerating the long-term thawing of permafrost ...

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’.