Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...
NATIVE TO ROCKY PEAKS seasonally covered in snow, alpine plants shrug off blazing sun, extreme cold, strong wind and poor soil — hardly the cushy conditions found in a home garden. “You’re trying to ...
In a study published in Science Advances on December 19, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from international ...