For most of the year, snow covers Colorado’s highest peaks. Above about 11,000 feet, cold blustery winds can be relentless through the winter. But summer can transform these Alpine tundra ...

The alpine tundra is a windy area with strong winds blowing at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. Location . Some locations of Arctic and alpine tundra include: Arctic Tundra .

Alpine tundra is still a treeless plain, but without the permafrost, this biome has better draining soils that support a wider variety of plant life.

Barren tundra lands, home to hardy flora and fauna, are one of the Earth's coldest, harshest biomes. ... Alpine tundras exist worldwide at altitudes above the mountain tree line.

While the alpine tundra’s net CO2 contributions are small compared to a forest’s sequestration capability, the newly-documented effect may act as something of a counterweight, hampering atmospheric ...

The upper elevations of the White Mountains are alpine tundra. Go there and it is as if you have stepped across the Atlantic Ocean onto Greenland. Since fall is in the air, ...

Alpine tundra plants, which in Colorado consist of wildflowers and low-lying grasses above treeline at about 11,000 feet, grow in frozen tundra soil that has trapped carbon via photosynthesis for ...

Species of wildflowers found in the Alpine tundra are often related to those found at lower elevations, Roberts said, but are usually dwarfed versions adapted to the severe conditions. This includes ...

Alpine tundra releases long-frozen CO2. Published:3/21/2019 3/21/2019 • By Trent Knoss. Thawing permafrost in high-altitude mountain ecosystems may be a stealthy, underexplored contributor to ...