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Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map

Vegetation Units:

Graminoid Tundras - Prostrate-shrub Tundras - Erect-shrub Tundras - Wetlands

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Barrens

• B1. Cryptogam, herb barren
• B2. Cryptogam barren complex (bedrock)
• B3. Noncarbonate mountain complex
• B4. Carbonate mountain complex

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Graminoid Tundras

• G1. Rush/grass, forb, cryptogam tundra
• G2. Graminoid, prostrate dwarf-shrub, forb tundra
• G3. Non-tussock sedge, dwarf-shrub, moss tundra
• G4. Tussock-sedge, dwarf-shrub, moss tundra

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Prostrate-shrub Tundras

• P1. Prostrate dwarf-shrub, herb tundra
• P2. Prostrate/hemiprostrate dwarf-shrub tundra

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Erect-shrub Tundras

• S1. Erect dwarf-shrub tundra
• S2. Low-shrub tundra

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Wetlands

• W1. Sedge/grass, moss wetland
• W2. Sedge, moss, dwarf-shrub wetland
• W3. Sedge, moss, low-shrub wetland

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