Location: The Arctic tundra region, north of the tree line.Methods: A photo-interpretive approach was used to delineate the vegetation onto an Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) base image. Mapping experts within nine Arctic regions prepared draft maps using geographic information ...
Treeline near the Arctic area is used to define the boundary of the geographic Arctic tundra-glacier area. Climate index The KTC defines five temperature base groups (tropical, subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar climates) and one precipitation base group. The threshold (\(R\), in mm) ...
8 Day Cruise North Spitsbergen Explore North Spitsbergen and focus on spotting polar bears aboard the 170-guest Hondius, or 108-guest Ortelius or Plancius. Zodiac cruise and photograph rugged mountains, sweeping tundra, ice caps, glaciers, unspoiled wilderness and abundant wildlife. ...
The exact location of the new site relative to the original site S15 could not be determined in 'pre-GPS' days. During the August 1972 expedition, the interior transect was extended further southeast to Nueltin Lake to cover the woodland-tundra transition. Sampling at close intervals (15 km ...
While the Arctic sees tundra and flowering plants, in Antarctica there is almost no vegetation save for lichens. And while the Arctic offers glaciers, icebergs and mountain landscapes, there is much more ice in Antarctica, hence it’s White Continent moniker, as well as the chance to see gian...
This study further demonstrates the estimation and evaluation of vegetation heights in a unique tundra environment from ArcticDEM DSMs. The study area is the Arctic site of Trail Valley Creek, Northwest Territories, Canada. Maps of vegetation height are generated using summer snow-free ArcticDEM ...
The tundra is a place of endless days or endless nights where temperatures can reach -58 degrees Fahrenheit (-50 degrees Celsius) for weeks at a time, and where the terrain consists mostly of ice sheets, pack ice, ice floes, icebergs, ice shelves and glaciers.Arctic Fox tells the story ...
The displacement of Nenets women from reindeer herding and the tundra in the Nenets autonomous Okrug, Northwestern Russia Acta Borealia, 18 (2001), pp. 41-60 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Urton and Hobson, 2005 E.J.M. Urton, K.A. Hobson Intrapopulation variation in gray wolf isotope...
Muskoxen are physiologically and behaviourally adapted to live year-around in the cold conditions of the Arctic tundra. Once widely distributed across the Holarctic, the present endemic population is restricted to Northern Canada and Greenland. In the last century, muskoxen have been reintroduced to...
(max = 8,947 g m−2), almost all of which were Subarctic forests. Total aboveground biomass tends to be much lower in Arctic tundra than Subarctic forests, where total aboveground biomass averages ~6,000 g m−2but can range from ~2,000 g m−2to ~30,000 g...