While the alpine ... tundra behaved with regard to this balance, and especially how it could continue emitting CO 2 year after year" Knowles said. "But now, we have evidence that climate change ...

Tundra ecosystems are treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and ... and birds live in mountain—or alpine—tundra and feed on the low ...

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The warming climate shifts the dynamics ... a broader perspective on Arctic and alpine regions by predicting increases in respiration across the whole tundra area together with more detailed ...

The new findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, show that alpine tundra in Colorado’s Front Range emits more CO2 than it captures annually, potentially creating a feedback loop ...

Their work also will help identify the forces that drive biodiversity among fragmented plant populations amid periods of climate change ... may happen to these tundra-alpine plant species as ...

The Arctic is warming more rapidly than lower latitudes owing to climate amplification involving temperature, water vapour, albedo and sea ice feedbacks 5,7. Tundra ecosystems are thus predicted ...

Now a postdoctoral researcher in ecosystem science at the University of Arizona, Knowles’ research into carbon dioxide emissions in alpine ... Arctic tundra permafrost feedback to climate ...