Tundra Biome Research in Alaska - The Structure and Function of Cold-Dominated Ecosystems

• Main Authors: Brown,Jerry, West,George C.
• Other Authors: TUNDRA BIOME ANALYSIS OF ECOSYSTEMS COLLEGE ALASKA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Anatomy and Physiology; Civil Engineering; *OIL POLLUTION; *ECOLOGY; *TUNDRA; COASTAL REGIONS; ALASKA; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COLD REGIONS; SOILS; PLANT GROWTH; TABLES(DATA); ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; WATER QUALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; OIL SPILLS; WATER CHEMISTRY; FOOD CHAINS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; MICROMETEOROLOGY; *Ecosystems; Prudhoe Bay; *Primary biological productivity; Barrow(Alaska); Tundra Biome program; Water quality data; Taiga; Arctic; Barrow; taiga; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA012083; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA012083

The objective of the Tundra Biome Program is to acquire a basic understanding of tundra, both alpine and arctic, and taiga. Collectively these are referred to as the cold-dominated ecosystems. The program's broad objectives are threefold: To develop a predictive understanding of how the wet arctic tundra ecosystem operates, particularly as exemplified in the Barrow, Alaska, area; to obtain the necessary data base from the variety of cold-dominated ecosystem types represented in the United States, so that their behavior can be modeled and simulated, and the results compared with similar studies underway in other circumpolar countries; to bring basic environmental knowledge to bear on problems of degradation, maintenance, and restoration of the temperature-sensitive and cold-dominated tundra/taiga ecosystems.