This is just one example of the various roles that vegetation types play in the warming of an area, differences that today's climate models still fail to take fully into account. "Our study shows that ...

A plant community is an assemblage of plants that co-exist in a similar environment. Different communities are defined by their structure, form, and species composition. Plant communities are both ...

Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw, glacier melt, droughts, fires and changes in vegetation. These developments are strongly linked to the energy exchange between land ...

Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Ute Jandt, Helge Bruelheide, John S. Rodwell, Joop H.J. Schaminée, Philip M. Perrin, Zygmunt Kącki, Wolfgang ...

The Brazilian Amazon is approaching the 20–25% range predicted by science as the possible point of no return for the biome,” ...

This study is led by Prof. Guangsheng Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences) and Prof. Hongrui Ren (Department of Geomatics, Taiyuan University of ...

The Amazon was approaching a "point of no return" of 20 to 25 percent vegetation loss at which it "ceases to sustain itself as a rainforest," said Bruno Ferreira, a researcher at the MapBiomas ...