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fieldnotes_biosymbiotics [2018/10/01 09:44] – [Surfing the Semiosphere (Judith van der Elst)] amifieldnotes_biosymbiotics [2018/10/13 13:06] (current) – [Kilpisjarvi Biological Fieldstation] ami
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 [[https://arcticresearch.wordpress.com/category/blogs-from-the-field/plant-invasions-in-the-subarctic-mountains/|plant invasions in the subarctic mountains]] [[https://arcticresearch.wordpress.com/category/blogs-from-the-field/plant-invasions-in-the-subarctic-mountains/|plant invasions in the subarctic mountains]]
 {{ :fieldnotes_eos:fieldnotes-infosheet2018.pdf |FieldNotes Infosheet}} {{ :fieldnotes_eos:fieldnotes-infosheet2018.pdf |FieldNotes Infosheet}}
 +[[https://fieldnotes.hybridmatters.net/posts/seven-senses-on-the-land-ssotl|Hybrid Matters - Seven Senses on the Land (2015)]]
  
 =====Ecology of the Senses===== =====Ecology of the Senses=====
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 **Tundra** is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра (tûndra) from the Kildin Sami word тӯндар (tūndâr) meaning "uplands", "treeless mountain tract". Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra. **Tundra** is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра (tûndra) from the Kildin Sami word тӯндар (tūndâr) meaning "uplands", "treeless mountain tract". Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra.
 {{gallery>:pollutionsensor:lichen}} {{gallery>:pollutionsensor:lichen}}
 +The word "tundra" usually refers only to the areas where the subsoil is permafrost, or permanently frozen soil. Permafrost tundra includes vast areas of northern Russia, Canada and northern Sapmi and is home to several peoples who are mostly nomadic reindeer herders, such as the Nganasan, the Nenets and the Sami.
 +During the summer, the permafrost thaws just enough to let plants grow and reproduce, but because the ground below this is frozen, the water cannot sink any lower, and so the water forms the lakes and marshes found during the summer months.
 +Most of Antarctica is too cold and dry to support vegetation, and most of the continent is covered by ice fields. However, some portions of the continent, particularly the Antarctic Peninsula, have areas of rocky soil that support plant life. The flora presently consists of around 300–400 lichens, 100 mosses, 25 liverworts, and around 700 terrestrial and aquatic algae species, which live on the areas of exposed rock and soil around the shore of the continent. 
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 +Plants in the sub-tundra: Ferns, Meadowsweet, Raspberry, Achilea millefolium, Angelica
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 =====MOMENTS OF ENLICHENMENT===== =====MOMENTS OF ENLICHENMENT=====
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