Polar Deserts of the Taimyr Peninsula (Poliarnye Pustyni Poluostrova Taimyr)

• Main Authors: Matveyeva,N V, Chernov,Yu I
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1977
• Subjects: Ecology; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *DESERTS; *PLANTS(BOTANY); USSR; MAMMALS; TERRAIN; SOILS; TRANSLATIONS; VEGETATION; BIRDS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ARCTIC REGIONS; SIBERIA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; LICHENS; PENINSULAS; TUNDRA; Taimyr Peninsula; Arctic; Chelyuskin; Ice; permafrost; polar desert; Taimyr; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA039152; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA039152

This article characterizes the natural conditions, the floral and faunal composition, and the vertical and horizontal structure of the communities in the Northernmost point of Eurasia-Chelyuskin Cape. In comparison with the tundra zone, there is a sharp impoverishment of flora and fauna in all group...