Hello, this Joshua Duquette from period four.
I beleive that the leeward side of the fence is called that because the snow is actually trapping heat and acting like an insulator therfore raising the tempretur below it.
I have a another question, plant matter that has frozen in the permafrost and has formed all the excess carbon in the tundra is probably not alive but just preserved right? Or is there actual biological material that had lived. I know that some frogs have a "antifreeze" that allows them to go into a type of suspended animation. I thought that the plants might have adapted in a way that would allow the seeds to be preserved for the future in which the ice might thaw. I'm not talking about when the plant is forced into the growing or in this case shrinking permafrost but instead the regular freezing and thawing of winter and summer.
-thanks