Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Network of Nature
Canada’s Arctic Tundra and the Impending “Carbon Bomb”
Written by: Bianca Marcellino
The Tundra biome is characterized by extreme cold weather, low biotic diversity and precipitation levels, short growing seasons, low-growing vegetation of simple structure, and nutrients available mostly in the form of dead organic matter. Only a small portion of the permafrost thaws each growing seaso...