List of tundra ecoregions
- List of tundra ecoregions
A List of tundra ecoregions from the WWF includes:
| Antarctic ecozone |
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Marielandia Antarctic tundra | Antarctic Peninsula |
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| Maudlandia Antarctic desert | East Antarctica |
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| Scotia Sea Islands tundra |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands,South Orkney Islands,
South Shetland Islands,Bouvet Island |
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| Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra | Crozet Islands,Prince Edward and Marion Islands,
Heard Island,Kerguelen Islands,McDonald Islands |
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| Australasia ecozone |
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| Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra | Australia
New Zealand |
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| Nearctic ecozone |
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| Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra | Canada,United States |
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| Aleutian Islands tundra | United States |
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| Arctic coastal tundra | Canada,United States |
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| Arctic foothills tundra | Canada,United States |
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| Baffin coastal tundra | Canada |
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| Beringia lowland tundra | United States |
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| Beringia upland tundra | United States |
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| Brooks-British Range tundra | Canada,United States |
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| Davis Highlands tundra | Canada |
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| High Arctic tundra | Canada |
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| Interior Yukon-Alaska alpine tundra | Canada,United States |
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| Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra | Greenland |
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| Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra | Greenland |
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| Low Arctic tundra | Canada |
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| Middle Arctic tundra | Canada |
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| Ogilvie-MacKenzie alpine tundra | Canada,United States |
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| Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra | Canada
United States |
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| Torngat Mountain tundra | Canada |
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| Palearctic ecozone |
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| Arctic desert | Russia |
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| Bering tundra | Russia |
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| Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra | Russia |
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| Chukchi Peninsula tundra | Russia |
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| Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra | Russia |
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| Kola Peninsula tundra | Norway
Russia |
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| Northeast Siberian coastal tundra | Russia |
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| Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra | Russia |
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| Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert | Russia |
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| Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands | Finland,Norway,Sweden |
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| Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra | Russia |
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| Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra | Russia |
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| Wrangel Island Arctic desert | Russia |
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| Yamalagydanskaja tundra | Russia |
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ee also
* Tundra
External links
* [http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/global200/pages/habitat/habitat11.htm Arctic tundra biome information from the WWF]
* [http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/global200/pages/habitat/habitat10.htm Alpine tundra information from the WWF]
* [http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/tundra.html The Arctic biome at Classroom of the Future]
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