Tag: alpine

A warming climate is contributing to the decline of some alpine bumblebees and moving some subalpine populations to higher elevations. Historically in the Rocky Mountains, two species of bumblebees stayed...

While bark beetle outbreaks can be problematic for western forests, they may actually be a boon to wild bee populations. “These large natural disturbances should not be perceived as completely...

For Dall’s sheep, environmental factors in the alpine regions they occupy play critical roles in their survival. In some regions, like the western Brooks Range in Alaska, major declines in...