The contrast between the declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd is correlated to different levels of ...
The declining Western Arctic herd and the thriving Porcupine herd use habitat with differing levels of climate change-related shrub growth.
That has mainly been due to carbon uptake from plants, which regulate atmospheric ... the Arctic are breaking down permafrost across the tundra, in some cases, severely. The Arctic report, for ...
Landscape fires trigger soil erosion processes: the tundra's upper cover, being left without plant protection, warms up faster and deeper, which leads to a significant degradation of the permafrost.
Can you find different food chains in a tundra habitat? First, find a producer – a plant that makes its own food from sunlight. Next, find a consumer that eats the producer. Then, find another ...
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 ...