I have a difficult time picking favorites - favorite color, or food, or movie. My tastes aren’t generally that black and white. Biomes, on the other hand, are easy for me. I have always been drawn to ...

Colorado’s alpine tundra is most visible in Rocky Mountain National Park above 11,400 feet. It’s a spectacular environment – but cold and severe. Still, life persists. The firs and pines at the edge ...

Arctic and Alpine Research, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Aug., 1997), pp. 339-344 (6 pages) Components of the radiation balance were measured on a level tundra site for 85 d during summer 1994 on Mount Washington, ...

For most of the year, snow covers Colorado’s highest peaks. Above about 11,000 feet, cold blustery winds can be relentless through the winter. But summer can transform these Alpine tundra environments ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KEYSTONE, Colo. (KDVR) – After a ...

After years of escalating greenhouse gas emissions from melting permafrost in the Arctic, scientists have discovered a similar problem from a new source: Colorado’s Front Range. Defrosting alpine ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A two-year study of the decomposition of alpine avens (Acomastylis rossii) foliage in alpine tundra of the Front Range of Colorado ...

Thawing permafrost in high-altitude mountain ecosystems may be a stealthy, underexplored contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions, new CU Boulder research shows. A similar phenomenon exists ...