The dominant plants are phanerophytes - trees ... and low-growing perennial shrubs. The tundra biome contains only about 3% of the world’s flora. Up to 60% of the flora can be made up of ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of ...

and all but the most frigid arctic regions are supported by plants. There are five main types of biomes —forest, desert, tundra, aquatic, and grassland— but they don’t all fit together ...

Each biome has characteristics that make it unique, for example Alaska is a type of tundra. The animals and plants have to be really tough to survive the freezing conditions. Deserts are dry and ...

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.

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 ...

However, many plants survived ... Meanwhile, the warm-cool temperate biome shifted towards polar regions, leading to the complete disappearance of tundra ecosystems." "The shift in vegetation ...