Near Lovozero, Murmanskaya Oblast, Russia Photograph by Matti Pellinen   Palaearctic Tundra   22,700 square miles (58,800 square kilometers) -- about the size of Maryland and Vermont combined Critical/Endangered

· 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

Justification for Ecoregion Delineation: This area is isolated from other Arctic coastal tundras by the White Sea, resulting in distinct characteristics in plant and animal taxa. Mapped ecoregion boundaries correspond to the lowland tundra in the coastal Norway-Kola peninsula 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.