Kamchatka, Russia Photograph by O. Kosterin   Palaearctic Tundra   46,100 square miles (119,300 square kilometers) -- about the size of Louisiana and Tennessee combined 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

Montane areas in Kamchatka are mostly located in the central and eastern parts of the peninusla. Mapped ecoregion boundaries correspond to the montane tundra in the Kurile-Kamchatka vegetation province 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.