Tundra: the garden of the Artic
The tundra, its vegetation and its role in the carbon balance are described.
Arctic Ecosystem
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The biological clock under the midnight sun
How the biological cycles and behaviour of plants and animals have adapted to the peculiarities of the Arctic.
Points of interest
Sterna paradisaea
The Arctic tern is a seabird nesting on sandy and rocky coasts in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions of Eurasia and North America, then migrating to the ...
Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus
An endemic subspecies of reindeer lives on Svalbard that is well adapted to the unusually harsh climate: it is smaller, has shorter legs, a smaller and ...
Vulpes lagopus
‘As cunning as a fox’ is certainly apt where the Arctic fox is concerned! Smaller, with shorter ears and a thick, white winter livery, the Arctic ...
Salix polaris
The polar willow is one of the most typical and common vascular plants of the Arctic tundra, with circumpolar distribution (it is found in Siberia, the ...
Dryas octopetala
Dryas octopetala, or the mountain avens, is the member of the rose family with the northernmost habitat. It has an unmistakeable white flower with eight ...