Tag: vegetation

A 2,087-plot study classified tussock tundra and willow vegetation in northwestern Arctic Alaska and proposed revised vegetation groups and alliances ...

Analysis of 1,337 plots produced the first systematic, comprehensive and internationally compatible classification of China’s Stipa steppes.

High mountains cover barely 13 percent of the planet's land surface, yet they punch far above their weight in biodiversity, ...

A new survey of Tankwa Karoo National Park reveals that elevation strongly shapes vegetation cover, diversity and life form composition ...

Researchers have launched the Transcaucasian Vegetation Database, a comprehensive resource compiling nearly a century of plant community data from the ...

On the prograding coast of Manawatū, New Zealand, one of the country's most mobile coastal dunefields is quietly losing its ...

In the high mountains of Europe, where icy water seeps from non-calcareous bedrock and mosses carpet the streambeds, a quiet ...

Hidden in the cold, windswept corners of Europe lies a botanical treasure trove that scientists have long struggled to catalogue. ...

The Neotropics stretch from Mexico all the way to Tierra del Fuego, and they hold roughly 85,000 vascular plant species, ...

Guatemala's Pacific coastal plain has been an agricultural engine for more than a century, its volcanic soils converted wholesale into ...