Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...

In July, the Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan was officially listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 14 years after the Center for ...

The shapes indicate the extrapolated ages. More than half the total plant species richness has been lost from the typical tundra site since 4.4 ka, suggesting that typical tundra plant richness is ...

While it would be impossible to describe all of Vermont — or any state, for that matter — in just one word or phrase, there ...

For caribou, growth of woody plants like alders and willows means problems. Caribou depend on tundra plants like lichen and mosses; the shrubs and trees taking over the terrain are reducing the ...

Most of these grasslands contain fragile tundra-like environments which are seriously affected by anthropogenic ... as well as vegetation classification and distribution mapping on the Tibetan Plateau ...

With ecosystems that range from the prairie grassland to the alpine tundra, the state has more biomes – a geographical area characterized by its diversity of plants, climate and wildlife ...

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Your message was sent. You'll receive a response shortly. Three years into its current generation, the Toyota Tundra keeps improving. For the 2025 model year, the full-size pickup truck gains yet ...