Sentences with phrase «tundra landscape»

The researchers said they expect to see the rolling tundra landscape transform, including the formation of large new valleys and lakes.

The researchers said they expect to see the rolling tundra landscape transform, including the formation of large new valleys and lakes.

The bodies of water, each less than a hectare in area, fill depressions in the hummocky tundra landscape with meltwater from thawing permafrost.

The colorful tundra landscape pictured here is part of the Arctic LTER site in the northern foothills of Alaska's Brooks Range (seen here in background).

By analyzing some 40,000 images of the tundra landscape, Ken D. Tape of the University of Alaska and David D. Gustine of the US Geological Survey documented the northern spring migrations of both species.

Now, shrub expansion is transforming the tundra landscape, but its impact on carbon stored in high - latitude soils is poorly understood.

Owing to the dual and contrasted occupation of tundra and forest communities in the same forest - tundra area and in the same topographic and edaphic setting, we were also interested (i) to evaluate the climatic impact of fire in time and space on the regeneration of the boreal forest at its northernmost limit and (ii) to determine the inception and expansion of tundra communities in a typical North American forest - tundra landscape.

As a new piece in Yale Environment 360 shows though, it well may not be incremental changes that do in tundra, but dramatic events like fires that push the vegetation in the in the region over the edge: As things are heading the tundra landscape is heading towards oblivion.

That also affects the migration patterns of wildlife, including caribou and musk ox, as well as the types of birds, rodents and insects that occupy the tundra landscape.