Alpine Adaptation: Dig-Down & Stand Your Ground
Extreme conditions at high-elevations tend to impede the establishment of annual plants…
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Extreme conditions at high-elevations tend to impede the establishment of annual plants…
Mountaintops have served as unlikely shelter for populations of cold-adapted species throughout…
These prototypical "cushion plants" are extreme alpine specialists. Short and dense branching…
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Few places on the land's surface present weather conditions that are more…
Relatively few organisms are sufficiently adapted to the harsh conditions of Alpine…
Leaves and flowering stems flattened to the ground and outwardly spreading from…
Lichens are the primary colonizers of new habitat in alpine regions. Unlike…
As the continent of Australia continues to burn, scientists wonder what these…
The California Central Valley was once a matrix of riparian grasslands and…
The drying of Owens Lake is a human-made catastrophe. In 1913, the…
Ingloriously described as “the biggest environmental disaster in California history,” and a…
Great Salt Lake is a shallow, highly saline, terminal lake situated in northern…
Lake Poopó is a saline lake in the Altiplano Mountains of Bolivia.…