arctic moss is an aquatic plant that grows both on the bottom of tundra lakes and around bogs. Like other mosses, arctic moss has tiny rootlets instead of traditional roots, only they have found ...

But in the upper layers of soil, around 1,700 types of plants find a way to flourish. The Arctic tundra contains a number of low shrubs and sedges as well as reindeer mosses, liverworts ...

Tundra describes the Arctic’s tree-less plains, where shrubs, grasses, and mosses grow and take in carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. Plants eventually release that CO2 back into the ...

as bare spots on the tundra, favoured by the lichen that they like to eat, are overtaken by shrubs. “This has cascading effects for Arctic animals that depend on these plants, also for food ...

The Western Arctic Caribou Herd ... Caribou depend on tundra plants like lichen and mosses; the shrubs and trees taking over the terrain are reducing the availability of that food favored by ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

With the Arctic warming faster than the global average, researchers at UBC and the University of Edinburgh have made an important discovery about tundra plants and how they are adapting faster ...

a postdoctoral researcher in tundra biodiversity at the University of Edinburgh. “Warmer temperatures are bringing in more species, but not everywhere. Shrubs are reshaping the Arctic ecosystem, but ...

By Raymond Zhong For thousands of years, the shrubs, sedges, mosses and lichens of the Arctic have ... caused the tundra to release more carbon dioxide than its plants removed from the air ...