Highlands in the Nordic countries defined as tundra type of its own

The Finnish Meteorological Institute has participated in a study in which similar tundra areas were divided into three different types of tundra on the basis of climate and vegetation. The highlands in the Nordic countries were classified as a separate oroarctic tundra type.

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Risto Virtanen, University of Oulu, tel.+358 294 48 1555

FMI: Researcher Juval Cohen, tel. +358 50 376 4128, juval.cohen@fmi.fi

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.1837/full