{"id":22746,"date":"2025-12-21T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22746"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:56:38","slug":"tundra-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tundra-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Tundra Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Tundra Ecosystem Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0According to a study conducted in Arctic Alaska, wildfires in the tundra have been more active this past century than at any time in the past 3,000 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Tundra Ecosystem<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tundra Biome is a treeless <\/span><b>region found in the Arctic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy, and rainfall is scant.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Characteristics of Tundra Ecosystem<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Low temperatures:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The average temperature is <\/span><b>-34 to -6 degrees Celsius<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (-30 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit) in the tundra region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Short growing seasons:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The summer growing season is <\/span><b>just 50 to 60 days, when<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the sun shines up to 24 hours a day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Permafrost:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A layer of permanently frozen soil lies beneath the surface, which can be a few inches to several feet thick.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Minimal precipitation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Despite often being <\/span><b>compared to deserts in terms of moisture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the tundra receives low levels of precipitation, often as snow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Limited biodiversity:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The harsh conditions of the tundra result in fewer plant and animal species compared to other biomes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Carbon sink:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The tundra acts as a <\/span><b>significant carbon storage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> area due to slow decomposition rates in the cold environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>The World has Three Types of Tundra<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Arctic Tundra:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It\u00a0 occurs <\/span><b>north of the taiga belt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the far Northern Hemisphere (It encompasses the land between the North Pole and the boreal forest, including parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Alpine tundra:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It prevails above the <\/span><b>tree line in mountains worldwide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (in various mountain ranges such as the Rockies, the Andes, the Himalayas, and the Alps).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Antarctic tundra:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It includes several sub-Antarctic islands and parts of the continent of Antarctica.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mosses, lichens, sedges, cotton grass, birches etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Arctic foxes, snow geese, polar bears etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/climate-change\/recent-tundra-fires-exceed-anything-in-past-3000-years-study-in-arctic-alaska-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tundra Ecosystem is treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy, and rainfall is scant. 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