Sentences with word «subarctic»

Observations of new particle formation and size distributions at two different heights and surroundings in subarctic area in northern Finland.

It nests in temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Subarctic climate regions, experiencing bitterly cold winters, have a long enough growing season for needled evergreens.

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

North Pacific and North Atlantic subarctic gyre circulations enhance with sinking waters associated with the northern North Atlantic winter.

Wik M, Thornton BF, Bastviken D, MacIntyre S, Varner RK, Crill PM (2014) Energy input is primary controller of methane bubbling in subarctic lakes.

Subarctic indigenous peoples in canada.

The high subarctic forest - tundra of northwestern Canada: position, width, and vegetation gradients in relation to climate

The Refuge is also an important part of a larger international network of protected arctic and subarctic areas.

Tracking the origins of Yakutian horses and the genetic basis for their adaptation to subarctic environments Librado, P., C. D. Sarkissian, L. Ermini, M. Schubert et al. 2015.

Assistant professor Kathrin Rousk, Department of Biology, explains, «to aid in predicting the role of moss - associated N2 fixation in a warmer, future climate, we quantified N2 fixation throughout the snow - free period in subarctic tundra.

Scientists predict the region will experience a sort of seasonal schizophrenia, with subarctic conditions in the summer and Arctic conditions in the cold, dark winter.

In the short subarctic summers, the family searched for roots and greens and, best of all from a child's point of view, wild blueberries, crowberries, or salmonberries, which her aunts would mix with whipped fat to make a special treat called akutuq — in colloquial English, Eskimo ice cream.

Aurela M. (2005) Carbon dioxide exchange in subarctic ecosystems measured by a micrometeorological technique.

In Arctic - subarctic ocean fluxes, eds.

«Land - derived organic carbon is having a growing influence on Arctic and subarctic ponds, which carries over into the food web,» according to the authors of the study.

Reykjavik, Iceland is not subarctic due to the higher temperatures and year - round rain.

These reefs can be found in subarctic waters in hundreds of meter depth as well as at thousand - meter depths at subtropical and tropical latitudes.

The researchers compared the effects of green surfaces in nine cities around the world, including subarctic Montreal in Canada, temperate London in the UK, humid Mumbai (India), and tropical Brasília (Brazil).

Russian scientists of Sakha Republic will attempt to clone woolly mammoths and other extinct animals, using remains that are extracted from the permanently frozen layers of the ground in Subarctic Siberia.

Sea ice anomalies at the springtime maximum probably have more to do with what is happening to weather over subarctic seas rather than what is happening to preconditioning of sea ice in the Arctic Basin proper.

Climate variability and change in the Canadian Eastern Subarctic IRIS region (Nunavik and Nunatsiavut).

Applicability — all hygro - thermal regions except subarctic / arctic — in cold and very cold regions the thickness of the foam sheathing should be determined by hygro - thermal analysis so that the interior surface of the foam sheathing remains above the dew point temperature of the interior air (see Side Bar 2)

19 Humid Mid-Latitude with Severe Winters Severe winters have an average temperature in the coldest month that is below -3 ºC (26.6 ºF) Two Types Humid Continental Subarctic

Globally the SSR was shown to be significantly less male - biased at tropical latitudes in comparison to temperate and subarctic latitudes [13].

Summary: Temperature and sea ice «abberations» in northern Greenland are transient phenomena that have clearly happened before (e.g. 2011) without major consequences except perhaps through impacts on eastern Arctic and subArctic weather conditions (including the UK).

Fire scars were rare because subarctic spruces usually display dense foliage at the stem base that is susceptible to burning completely during fire.

Dating and delineation of each fire recorded in the remaining 90 % of the surface of the studied sites have been a continuous ecological challenge owing to the long period of time considered in this study and the nature and complexity of old - growth subarctic vegetation.

The only place the authors observed some benefits of vitamin C supplementation was in marathon runners, skiers, and soldiers on «subarctic exercise» — and even in those small populations, the observed effect was small.

But in certain areas, such as the agriculturally ill - suited Subarctic — once home to the mammoth steppe — there remained a gap in this respect that continues until today.

Biologists and other scientists needed help publishing accounts of an unusual number of arctic and subarctic discoveries amassed by the 1980s.

According to Nicholas D. Pyenson, the museum's curator of fossil marine mammals, and Alexandra Boersma, a researcher in his lab, the fossil belonged to a dolphin that swam in subarctic marine waters around 25 million years ago.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»

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.

The best scientific payoffs require venturing to the harshest environments, where blistering volcanoes or subarctic icescapes could instantly transform multimillion - dollar machines into scrap metal.

In a study published in the journal PLoS One she has, together with Jonas Lembrechts, scientist at University of Antwerp, Belgium, investigated how plants normally growing in lowland terrain can spread at higher altitudes in subarctic mountain areas in Norway.

It's long been thought mammoths and mastodons rambled over North America's arctic and subarctic realms between 75,000 and 100,000 years ago, and were made extinct by hungry new arrivals on the scene: human beings.

[Grant D. Zazula et al, American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change] Druckenmiller and co-authors were led to these conclusions after colleagues at the Yukon Paleontology Program in Canada decided to redate nearly 40 specimens, because American mastodons are often mistaken for their much hairier wooly mammoth cousins, who hung around the area later.

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.

pingo Hills that form across the Arctic and subarctic landscape as water collects underground, freezes and then expands to push the soil upward and out.

The most seamless and stress - free way to put together your beluga adventure is to purchase a packaged experience from the reputable subarctic operator Frontiers North.

Our beluga whale exhibit contains subarctic - temperature water as well as harbor seals.