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    The Tundra stores about one third of the world's total carbon in a layer of permanently frozen soil called permafrost. However, as global temperatures rise, the permafrost is thawing and releasing this stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Increasing temperatures are also promoting vegetation growth in the Tundra, which takes up more carbon through photosynthesis but then releases it back into the air. If global warming continues unchecked, the effects on the Tundra ecosystem and stored carbon will worsen over the next 20 years, endangering animals like caribou and rare mosses that live there.

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    The Tundra stores about one third of the world's total carbon in a layer of permanently frozen soil called permafrost. However, as global temperatures rise, the permafrost is thawing and releasing this stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Increasing temperatures are also promoting vegetation growth in the Tundra, which takes up more carbon through photosynthesis but then releases it back into the air. If global warming continues unchecked, the effects on the Tundra ecosystem and stored carbon will worsen over the next 20 years, endangering animals like caribou and rare mosses that live there.

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    Biome Final 12.10

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    Catie Wooten
    The Tundra stores about one third of the world's total carbon in a layer of permanently frozen soil called permafrost. However, as global temperatures rise, the permafrost is thawing and releasing this stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Increasing temperatures are also promoting vegetation growth in the Tundra, which takes up more carbon through photosynthesis but then releases it back into the air. If global warming continues unchecked, the effects on the Tundra ecosystem and stored carbon will worsen over the next 20 years, endangering animals like caribou and rare mosses that live there.

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    The Tundra

    The Tundra is a sink for carbon,

    totaling about one third of the total


    The outlook for the Tundra is not

    so good. In just one year, the global


    carbon in the world. The place where
    mean temperature spiked to a .7 degree
    carbon is stored in the Tundra is in a
    increase, which is substantial to say the
    layer called permafrost, a layer of
    least. The amount that the average
    permanently frozen earth which is ten
    temperature usually changes in a one
    inches to three feet thick. As of late, it
    year span of data is generally much
    The Tundra, or "tunturia", which isn’t retaining much due to global
    smaller than that. From the Little Ice Age
    means barren land in Finnish, covers warming. Carbon, as one may know, gets
    to 2004, the mean temperature increased
    approximately twenty percent of the released into the air by breaking apart by
    under three degrees. The Tundra will
    Earth’s surface and circumnavigates the means of heating up. With the average
    continue to lose carbon at a rapid rate,
    North Pole. The rest is composed of bits global temperature rising, the thick layer
    only to be dictated by the increasing
    of Russia, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, of permafrost is thawing, leading to
    global mean temperature, and further
    and almost a third of Canada. The land is carbon being released into the
    industrialization in the Tundra.
    mostly barren with minimal vegetation atmosphere.

    during the winter. In the summer the sun

    can stay out for days, and the land is

    occupied with marshes. The

    precipitation, mostly snow, totals six to

    ten inches annually.


    With temperatures rising, vegetation
    That’s another problem- The most
    prospers, then more CO2 will be taken,
    substantial effects of global warming are
    released into the atmosphere, and that
    hitting the Tundra and Antarctica.
    carbon can only do bad things in the
    Increasing industrialization in the Tundra
    atmosphere.
    is contributing to the global warming

    crisis, as well as disrupting what has

    been happening in the Tundra for the last In the next twenty or so years, all

    10,000 years(it’s the youngest biome). of those bad things will continue to get

    The vegetation in the Tundra worse. The affects that global warming

    consists of mostly Arctic Moss, Caribou will take on the tundra include the

    Moss, shrubs, and plains. Occasionally animals and plants living there. The

    there will be a tree (or two) out of place animals there which include a special

    in the Tundra. These things take carbon type of deer, will become scarce with this

    dioxide from the atmosphere through the increasing temperature and climate

    photosynthesis but instead of storing that change. This also includes mosses that

    CO2 in the soil, the carbon gets released could possibly die out forever.

    back into the atmosphere.

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