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POLAR DESERT

Areas where the cold, dry polar climate generally prohibits the growth of plants. Some very low-growing herbaceous or dwarf-shrub taxa may occur along sheltered brooksides or where water seeps from snowbeds.

[See alsoantarctic, arctic, biome, cryosols, landscape, tundra]

Sheila P.HicksUniversity of Oulu
http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446247501.n3034
10.4135/9781446247501.n3034

AlexandrovaVD (1988) Vegetation of the Soviet polar deserts.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
PriscuJC (ed.) (1998) Ecosystem dynamics in a polar desert: The McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.
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