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Like zonobiome VIII, zonobiome IX encircles the globe in the northern hemisphere. It encompasses the whole of the Arctic region, the Eurasian part extending from Norway to the Bering Straits; that is, from 10°E to the dateline at 107°W, or about half-way around the world (Fig. 9.1). In the Pleistocene, when the level of the sea was lower, the north-Siberian islands were connected to the mainland. Unlike the western part of this zonobiome, they were not covered by continental ice during the last ice age.
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Walter, H., Breckle, SW. (1989). Zonobiome IX: The Arctic Tundra of Eurasia. In: Ecological Systems of the Geobiosphere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70160-3_9
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