What does it mean to be picture perfect? Just take a hike along the tundra regions of Western Canada, and the significance of ...

We identify biomes by the vegetation and animals that populate them ... cold temperatures and treeless, frozen landscapes. There are two types of tundra: Arctic and alpine. The Arctic tundra ...

The extremely cold temperatures of the tundra, combined with the lack of precipitation makes for a rather barren landscape. But there are a number of plants and animals that still call this ...

Tundra ecosystems are treeless ... couldn't take root on the permafrost now dot the landscape, potentially altering the habitat of the native animals. Today, however, as the permafrost melts ...

But how has the environment shaped the landscape and this biome ... mostly those involved with reindeer - move their animals across the tundra coniferous forest biomes in response to the seasons.

WITHIN the last dozen years the author has seen the tundra and coniferous forests of ... From her observations she has put together a picture of animal life in these widely different environments ...

Sea ice-dependent animals can also be forced ashore or ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink ...

A new review on zoonotic infections (diseases spread by animals) in the Canadian Arctic offers important guidance to clinicians, as the region gains global attention and climate change raises the ...

Sea ice-dependent animals can also be forced ashore or ... For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink ...

For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures ... the last few decades as global warming transforms the landscape to which they’ve adapted, for example.