Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...

Robert Baxter receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. High up on a mountain where winds are too fierce, temperatures too extreme and soils too poor for ...

Hundreds of people are caring for cuttings from Tasmania's unique alpine plants in their backyards, as part of a biobanking project. The idea is to create an urban climate refuge, which can be used to ...

A delightfully fragrant winter-flowering shrub, winter daphne adds evergreen interest to garden beds and borders. When most of the landscape takes a much-deserved rest, winter daphne (Daphne odora) is ...

Researchers have studied how two characteristic Arctic-alpine plant species respond to global warming. They did this by analyzing almost 500 million of their own readings from the mountainous region ...