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 ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - savannahs and ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

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 ...

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 ...

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.