Animals of the Arctic: The Ecology of the Far North |
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Alaska alcids Arctic foxes Arctic hares Arctic Ocean Baffin Bering Strait Beringia breeding BREUMMER BREUMMER Canada Canadian archipelago caribou cliffs climate close coast coastal cold diving eastern Siberia Ellesmere Island environment Eskimos Eurasia feed fish forest forest-tundra fur seals glacial period grasses Greenland grey ground guillemots gulls Harp seals herbivores herds Hooded seals Hudson Bay hunted ice age ice caps ice sheets Iceland insects Labrador lakes land larvae latitudes lemmings lichens live mammals metres migrate million years ago mosses move musk-oxen nest North America northward numbers OTT/COLEMAN Pacific pack ice petrels phocids plankton polar basin polar bears polar regions predators prey pups reindeer reindeer moss rivers rocks Scandinavia sea birds sea ice sea lions season shallow shore Siberia skuas small mammals smaller snow soil southern species spread Subarctic summer surface waters Svalbard temperate temperatures tree line tundra vegetation voles waders walruses warm warmer weighing whales winter