Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change.

You will be randomly allocated a 1km square to visit near you. The survey then involves recording plant indicator species in five plots of semi-natural habitat in your 1km square. You can either ...

Dead plants are decomposed by bacteria ... Lichen grow in exposed places such as rocks and can be used as an indicator species for air pollution. are commonly used to determine air pollution ...