Sentences with phrase «subarctic north»

Late Tertiary plant macrofossils from localities in Arctic / Subarctic North America: A review of data

Slightly further south, in the subarctic North Pacific, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were as high as 10 °C to 12 °C between ~ 9,000 and 5,000 years ago.

Scientists previously thought that iron fertilization could work in all iron - deficient ocean stretches: the subarctic North Pacific Ocean, the equatorial Pacific and the Antarctic Ocean.

Not exact matches

Some ornithologists have long suspected that the blackpoll warbler, common in North America's subarctic evergreen forests, takes a direct route over the Atlantic Ocean to South America, where it spends the winter.

But we already have some good terrestrial carbon sequestration systems, including the vast subarctic peat forests of Russia and North America, the huge equatorial peat forests of Borneo, the Amazon basin and the smaller forests in New Zealand, Tasmania and South America.

The compactness and proximity of a number of arctic and subarctic ecological zones in the Arctic Refuge provides for greater plant and animal diversity than in any other similar sized land area on Alaska's North Slope.

«Iron Deficiency limits phytoplankton growth in the north - east Pacific Subarctic.»

19 21.2 World Climates Humid Mid-Latitude Climates Humid Mid-Latitude With Severe Winters • A subarctic climate is found north of the humid continental climate and south of the polar climate; it is characterized by bitterly cold winters and short, cool summers.

• A subarctic climate is found north of the humid continental climate and south of the polar climate; it is characterized by bitterly cold winters and short, cool summers.

Subarctic Climate Occurs mainly in Northern hemisphere south of Arctic Ocean Winters are long and bitterly cold; summers short and cool Below freezing half the year Tundra Climate Coastal areas along the Arctic Ocean Long, bitterly cold winters In some parts is permafrost, or permanently frozen layers of soil Ice Cap Climate North and South poles Temperature lows of more than - 120 F Snow and ice remain year - round, but little precipitation Highland Climate Found on mountains Includes polar climates plus others; several climates in one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparser.

R. Bruce Morrison, Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience (2004); J. Helm, ed, Handbook of North American Indians, vol 6: Subarctic (1981); D. Jenness, The Sekani Indians of British Columbia (1937).