The extensive northern forests of Canada, Alaska and Siberia are about to fundamentally change their tree density because of ...

As you can see, not much light can penetrate through the canopy. On the forest floor only a few herbaceous plants can grow and survive the low light conditions - like mosses, lichen and ferns.

temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the trees and other plant and non-plant species, as well as ecosystem processes and conservation. Carbon dioxide uptake in old ...

The cooler forest soils in the northern biomes, including boreal forest and tundra ... endemic and sensitive plant varieties ...