- The Arctic desert ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1101) is a terrestrial ecoregion that covers the island groups of Svalbard, Franz Josef Land...
- Russian Arctic Desert. The ecoregion’s land area is provided in units of 1,000 hectares.
- Those interested in the Arctic region may have a question: what is an Arctic desert? It can be mentioned quite a lot, but it's not always clear.
- “A nameless arctic fox in the desert,” pondered Reala. “What did you call her?” “Lost,” snickered the penguins.
- Is the Arctic a desert yes or no? Away from the coasts, the interior regions of the Arctic lands have a continental climate.
- The Inuit have adapted their lives to the extreme conditions of the Arctic Desert. Generally, building materials are difficult to come by in the Arctic Desert.
- The air in the Arctic Desert is so cold it cannot retain very much moisture, so snow and rain aren’t common.
- As a result the air is dry in the Arctic just as it would be in a conventional “hot” desert even though there is an ocean at the Arctic.
- As a result, the air is dry in the Arctic just as it would be in a conventional "hot" desert, even though there is an ocean at the Arctic.
- But the ice zone of the south, also represented by shrub-moss arctic deserts, is already a well-developed shrub layer with polar and Arctic willows and dryads.
