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  2. Alpine tundra - Wikipedia

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    Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate. As the latitude of a location approaches the poles, the threshold elevation for alpine tundra gets lower until it reaches sea level, and alpine tundra merges with polar tundra .

  3. Ogilvie–MacKenzie alpine tundra - Wikipedia

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    The vegetation is alpine and subalpine. The ground cover is 23% low herbaceous cover, 19% shrub, 17% is closed evergreen forest, 11% is open forest, and 28% is bare or has sparse vegetation. [3] The open forest is characterized by discontinuous stands of white spruce (Picea glauca), alpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta).

  4. Interior Yukon–Alaska alpine tundra - Wikipedia

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    The Interior Yukon–Alaska alpine tundra ecoregion (WWF ID: NA1111) covers alpine, sub-alpine, and boreal forest areas along the cordillera (chain of mountain ranges) of Interior Alaska and south-central Yukon Territory. Geologically, they are the disjunct uplands of the Yukon–Tanana terrane plus a southern extension of the Brooks Range. The ...

  5. Montane grasslands and shrublands - Wikipedia

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    North Tibetan Plateau–Kunlun Mountains alpine desert: China: Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows: China, India, Pakistan: Ordos Plateau steppe: China: Pamir alpine desert and tundra: Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan: Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows: China: Sayan alpine meadows and tundra: Mongolia, Russia: Southeast ...

  6. Alpine climate - Wikipedia

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    a) the alpine climate, which occurs when the mean biotemperature of a location is between 1.5 and 3 °C (34.7 and 37.4 °F). The alpine climate in Holdridge system is roughly equivalent to the warmest tundra climates (ET) in the Köppen system.

  7. Tundra climate - Wikipedia

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    The tundra climate is a polar climate sub-type located in high latitudes and high mountains. It is classified as ET according to the Köppen climate classification . It is a climate which at least one month has an average temperature high enough to melt snow (0 °C [32 °F]), but no month with an average temperature in excess of 10 °C (50 °F ...

  8. Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The hills that circle the refuge lowlands are capped by alpine tundra. It takes a week in a canoe, or more than an hour in a small plane, to traverse the refuge's 2,100,000 acres (8,500 km 2 ) of pristine wildlife habitat.

  9. Alaska–St. Elias Range tundra - Wikipedia

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    This ecoregion consists of a long range of high rocky mountains of the Alaska Interior running north from the bottom of the Alaska Peninsula, eastwards taking in the Alaska Range and southwards to include the Wrangell and Saint Elias Mountains in eastern Alaska on the Canada–US border as far as Yakutat Bay.