Cape Heart Rock, Russia Photograph by © WWF/A. ZUCKERMANN-VDOVENKO   Palaearctic Tundra   115,200 square miles (298,400 square kilometers) -- about twice the size of Geprgia Relatively Stable/Intact

· Location and General Description
· Biodiversity Features
· Current Status
· Threats
· Ecoregion Justification
· References
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Location and General Description

Biodiversity Features

Current Status

Types and Severity of Threats

Justification of Ecoregion Delineation

This tundra ecoregion is located on Russia’s northeast peninsula and continues west along the coast of the East Siberian Sea. Mapped ecoregion boundaries correspond to the montane and lowland tundra along the Chukote and East Siberian Sea coasts in Kurnaev’s (1990) forest map of the USSR.

References

Kurnaev, S. 1990. Forest regionalization of the USSR (1:16,000,000) Moscow: Dept. of Geodesy and Cartography

For more general information on this ecoregion, go to the WildWorld version of this description.