Tundra: References & Edit History
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General treatments describing the tundra biome include A.D. Tarbox, An Arctic Tundra Food Chain (2008); Peter D. Moore, Tundra (2008); and Cherie Winner, Life in the Tundra: Alaska’s Coastal Plain (2003). Alpine tundras are considered in Ann H. Zwinger and Beatrice E. Willard, Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra (1996); Christian Körner, Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems, 2nd ed. (2003); and Joyce G. Gellhorn, Song of the Alpine: The Rocky Mountain Tundra Through the Seasons (2002). Technical considerations of tundra environments include H. Gerald Jones, Snow Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Snow-Covered Ecosystems (2011); and Garik Gutman and Anni Reissell (eds.), Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate (2011).
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Lawrence C. Bliss
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Professor of Biology, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Article title updated for style. | Nov 12, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California - eScholarship - Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. | Aug 15, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Tundra Vegetation Community Type, Not Microclimate, Controls Asynchrony of Above‐ and Below‐Ground Phenology. | Aug 29, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Environmemental Research Letters - The changing carbon balance of tundra ecosystems: results from a vertically-resolved peatland biosphere model (PDF). | Nov 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA Earth Observatory - Tundra. | Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: USDA Forest Service - Tundra. | Dec 29, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Sep 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California - Museum of Paleontology - The tundra biome. | Jun 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Tundras Explained. | Apr 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Alaska Department of Fish And Game - Tundra. | Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Tundra Biome. | Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 30, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Wildlife Fund - Tundra. | Jan 21, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Animal Foundation - Tundra. | Jan 21, 2019 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Mar 29, 2017 | ||
| Added a map showing the distribution of permafrost globally, a photo of a pingo, and a diagram describing pingo formation. | Mar 29, 2017 | ||
| Updated the divergence of modern surface air temperatures from the benchmark set in 1900 and described overall temperature trends with respect to the region. | Mar 29, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kids Do Ecology - Tundra. | Aug 02, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA - Earth Observatory - Tundra. | Apr 11, 2014 | ||
| Deleted photograph. | Sep 06, 2013 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Dec 22, 2011 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Dec 22, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Tundra. | May 30, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Environment - What Are Tundras? | May 30, 2011 | ||
| Added image of Alaskan tundra. | Nov 29, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: Window To The Universe - Tundra Biome. | Apr 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Geographic - Environment - Tundra. | Apr 20, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: MBGnet - Tundra. | Sep 11, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Tundra. | Nov 11, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: RCN Corporation - Biomes. | Aug 23, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jan 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Missouri Botanical Garden - Biomes of the World. | Jun 30, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Missouri Botanical Garden - Biomes of the World. | Jun 30, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology - The World's Biomes. | Jun 27, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology - The World's Biomes. | Jun 27, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 16, 2005 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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