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Nutrient Cycling in the Tundra

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Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 10))

Abstract

The term tundra is generally applied to treeless areas that are situated beyond the climatic limit for tree growth. This definition can denote both regions of high latitude north or south of the tree line (i.e. arctic/Antarctic or polar tundra), or high altitude belts above the natural tree line in all climatic zones (i.e. alpine tundra). Arctic and alpine tundras have many similarities, but also great differences. This chapter describes the processes of carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in arctic or arctic-alpine tundra, the latter referring to high elevation belts in the boreal region above 60 °N. The majority of this area is located in northern parts of Russia, North America and Scandinavia. For a comprehensive description of tundra systems, see Wielgolaski (1997).

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Stark, S. (2007). Nutrient Cycling in the Tundra. In: Marschner, P., Rengel, Z. (eds) Nutrient Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Soil Biology, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68027-7_11

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