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2. List of tundra ecoregions - Wikipedia

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   A list of tundra ecoregions from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) includes: Antarctic realm [1] Adelie Land tundra: Adélie Land: Central South Antarctic ...

3. Arctic coastal tundra - Wikipedia

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   The Arctic coastal tundra is an ecoregion of the far north of North America, an important breeding ground for a great deal of wildlife. Setting

4. Tundra - Wikipedia

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   In physical geography, tundra (/ ˈ t ʌ n d r ə, ˈ t ʊ n-/) is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons. There are three regions and associated types of tundra: Arctic tundra, [2] alpine tundra, [2] and Antarctic tundra. [3] Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges, grasses ...

5. Alpine tundra - Wikipedia

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   Alpine tundra occurs at high enough altitude at any latitude.Portions of montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregions worldwide include alpine tundra. Large regions of alpine tundra occur in the North American Cordillera and parts of the northern Appalachian Mountains in North America, the Alps and Pyrenees of Europe, the Himalaya and Karakoram of Asia, the Andes of South America, the Eastern ...

6. Tundra of North America - Wikipedia

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   The adversity of soil and climatic conditions proves to low production levels, as well as little biomass accumulation due to slow rates of nutrient release in cold and wet soils, specifically as a result of limited nitrogen and phosphorus (Nadelhoffer et al. 1996) Additionally, there are low temperatures and strong winds in the tundra causing most vegetation to be dominated by woody plants ...

7. List of ecoregions in Europe - Wikipedia

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   Tundra: PA1106 Kola Peninsula tundra: Norway and Russia Tundra: PA1108 Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra: Russia Tundra: PA1110 Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands: Norway, Sweden, and Finland PA1201 Southeastern Europe: Along the coastline of Greece and Turkey, stretching into Macedonia: Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and ...

8. Barren Grounds - Wikipedia

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   Barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus), subspecies of caribou found in Canada and Greenland.. James Charles Critchell Bullock (6 September 1898 – 31 March 1953) an Englishman best known for his diaries and photographs of an expedition in 1923 with John Hornby across the Barren Grounds.

9. Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots - Wikipedia

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   The Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots were established in 1959 along Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, above the treeline in an alpine tundra habitat. The plots were used by Beatrice Willard of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado from 1959 to about 1999 in a long-term ...