Abstract
The ZB IX, comprises two very widely separated sub-areas around the poles of the earth, which differ greatly from each other due to the very different distribution of land and ocean areas in the N and S and in the corresponding latitudinal positions. In each case, the continentality decreases sharply from S to N. The largest forestless tundra area occupies a huge area of three million square kilometres in N Siberia, north of the Arctic timberline. In the South, s of the Antarctic timberline, tundra occurs only in small areas and on some islands. Antarctica itself is covered by a huge ice desert.
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Breckle, SW., Rafiqpoor, M.D. (2022). Part L: ZB IX—Zonobiom of the Tundra, the Arctic Climate. In: Vegetation and Climate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64036-4_13
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