The unique vegetation of the Arctic tundra could disappear by the year 2050 if no substantial reduction in global warming is achieved, scientists have warned.
Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute’s (AWI) Center for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, have investigated the effects of the Siberian larch forests’ steady northward growth.
Their computer simulation shows that their rapid expansion is a great threat to the tundra’s exceptional vegetation composed of dwarf shrubs, grasses, mosses and lichens.
