Science news articles about 'alpine plants'

... dust's acceleration of snowmelt on the life cycles of alpine plants. The timing of snowmelt signals to mountain ... flowering. When dust causes early snowmelt, plant growth does not necessarily begin soon ...

Accelerated snowmelt -- precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains -- changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to a new study. ...

... swiftly establish a thriving community of microbes, setting the table for lichens, mosses and alpine plants. The discovery is the first to reveal how microbial life becomes established and flourishes ...

... previously unknown and entirely unique form of plant root has been discovered. Lead Scientist Professor ... Ecology Letters. The root belongs to the small alpine plant Corydalis conorhiza and unlike normal ...

... this finding in Ecology Letters. The root belongs to the small alpine plant Corydalis conorhiza and unlike normal roots, which grow into soil, they extend upward through layers of ...