Mountain goats, sheep, marmots, and birds live in mountain—or alpine—tundra and feed on the low ... brought on by global warming. This map shows the major regions where tundras are most ...

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 ...

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 ...

The eddy covariance method was used to measure the surface energy balance above high-elevation (3502 m above sea level) alpine tundra at Niwot Ridge, CO, over 3 years from 2007 to 2009. During the ...