Non-forest alpine plant communities exist on 11 of the Adirondack’s highest peaks, comprising a total of only 85 acres. Here, scattered amongst exposed rock surfaces encrusted with a wide variety of ...

The cooler temperatures shifted the tree line downslope and transformed the high mountain landscape from forest to the alpine tundra that exists today. One of the paper's authors, David McWethy ...

In contrast, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Alpine forests, which are largely mature, will show only a 0.74% increase. “We found that forests at different growth stages have very different carbon ...