Editing Scree (section)

==Biodiversity==


Scree [[microclimate]]s maintained by circulating freezing air create micro[[habitat]]s that support taiga plants and animals that could not otherwise survive regional conditions.<ref name=":0" />

A [[Czech Republic Academy of Sciences]] research team led by [[physical chemist]] Vlastimil Růžička, analyzing 66 scree slopes, published a paper in ''[[Journal of Natural History]]'' in 2012, reporting that: "This microhabitat, as well as interstitial spaces between scree blocks elsewhere on this slope, supports an important assemblage of boreal and [[arctic]] [[bryophyte]]s, [[pteridophyte]]s, and [[arthropod]]s that are disjunct from their normal ranges far to the north. This freezing scree slope represents a classic example of a palaeo [[Refugium (population biology)|refugium]] that significantly contributes to [the] protection and maintenance of regional landscape [[biodiversity]]."<ref name=":0" />

[[Ice Mountain]], a massive scree in [[West Virginia]], supports distinctly different distributions of plant and animal species than northern latitudes.<ref name=":0" />