tundra vegetation

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• Tundra Swan — (Bewick s Swan/Whistling Swan) Adult Bewick s Swan, Cygnus columbianus bewickii   …   Wikipedia

• Tundra — Tipos principales de hábitat del WWF (11. Tundra) Tundra de Groenlandia en verano Caracter …   Wikipedia Español

• Tundra — (»Moossteppe«), die im nördlichsten Asien und Europa jenseit der Baumgrenze gelegenen weiten Landstrecken mit Grundeis in geringer Tiefe unter der Oberfläche. Hier bilden Moose und Flechten den Hauptteil der Vegetation, nur von wenigen arktischen …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

• Tundra — Tun dra, n. [Russ.] One of the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern arctic regions in both hemispheres. The tundras mark the limit of arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tundra — In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes from Kildin Sami tūndâr uplands, tundra, treeless mountain tract . There are two types of tundra:… …   Wikipedia

• tundra — /tun dreuh, toon /, n. one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. [1835 45; < Russ túndra < Lappish; cf. Kola Lappish tundar flat elevated area] * * * Treeless, level or rolling ground …   Universalium

• Tundra — Tundrenzone der Erde (Subpolargebiete) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Vegetation of New England and the Maritime Provinces — This area is dominated by a forest ecoregion called the New England Acadian forests which is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest. [ [http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/50410.htm Bioimages on Vanderbilt.edu: New England/Acadian… …   Wikipedia

• Tundra — Toundra Biome de la toundra La toundra sur les plaines côtières de l Alaska Caractéristiques Répar …   Wikipédia en Français

• Tundra Shrew — Taxobox name = Tundra ShrewMSW3 Hutterer | pages = 298] status = LR/lc status system = iucn2.3 status ref =IUCN2006|assessors=Insectivore Specialist Group|year=1996|id=41422|title=Sorex tundrensis|downloaded=9 May 2006 Database entry includes a… …   Wikipedia

• tundra — noun Etymology: Russian, from Russian dialect (northeast) tundra, tundara, from Kildin Sami (Sami language of the northern Kola Peninsula) tūnter Date: circa 1841 a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic… …   New Collegiate Dictionary