List of tundra ecoregions explained

A list of tundra ecoregions from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) includes:

Antarctic realm[1]
Adelie Land tundraAdélie Land
Central South Antarctic Peninsula tundraAntarctic Peninsula
Dronning Maud Land tundraQueen Maud Land
East Antarctic tundraEastern Antarctica
Ellsworth Land tundraEllsworth Land
Ellsworth Mountains tundraEllsworth Mountains
Enderby Land tundraEnderby Land
Marie Byrd Land tundraMarie Byrd Land
North Victoria Land tundraVictoria Land
Northeast Antarctic Peninsula tundraAntarctic Peninsula
Northwest Antarctic Peninsula tundraAntarctic Peninsula
Prince Charles Mountains tundraPrince Charles Mountains
Scotia Sea Islands tundraSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Shetland Islands, Bouvet Island
South Antarctic Peninsula tundraAntarctic Peninsula
South Orkney Islands tundraSouth Orkney Islands
South Victoria Land tundraVictoria Land
Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundraCrozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, Heard Island, Kerguelen Islands, McDonald Islands
Transantarctic Mountains tundraTransantarctic Mountains
Australasian realm
Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundraAustralia, New Zealand
Nearctic realm
Alaska–St. Elias Range tundraCanada, United States
Aleutian Islands tundraUnited States
Arctic coastal tundraCanada, United States
Arctic foothills tundraCanada, United States
Baffin coastal tundraCanada
Beringia lowland tundraUnited States
Beringia upland tundraUnited States
Brooks–British Range tundraCanada, United States
Davis Highlands tundraCanada
High Arctic tundraCanada
Interior Yukon–Alaska alpine tundraCanada, United States
Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundraGreenland
Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundraGreenland
Low Arctic tundraCanada
Middle Arctic tundraCanada
Ogilvie–MacKenzie alpine tundraCanada, United States
Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundraCanada
United States
Torngat Mountain tundraCanada
Palearctic realm
Arctic desertRussia
Bering tundraRussia
Cherskii–Kolyma mountain tundraRussia
Chukchi Peninsula tundraRussia
Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundraRussia
Kola Peninsula tundraNorway
Russia
Northeast Siberian coastal tundraRussia
Northwest Russian–Novaya Zemlya tundraRussia
Novosibirsk Islands arctic desertRussia
Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslandsFinland, Norway, Sweden, Russia
Taimyr–Central Siberian tundraRussia
Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundraRussia
Wrangel Island Arctic desertRussia
Yamalagydanskaja tundraRussia

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix014