Arctic Tree Line Map

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The arctic area, as defined by the arctic monitoring and assessment programme (amap), is limited by the orange line on the graphic. At lower latitudes, but north of the arctic circle, the duration of continuous day and night are shorter. Please note that cartographic material, as our maps, is covered under the international convention for the protection of literary and artistic works.

The conifers are also susceptible to fire during dry periods, and this and cutting by humans make today's treeline a diffuse and unstable boundary.

At bottom right is alaska, where researchers are now working in the area just beyond the arctic circle. The climate above the tree line of mountains is called an alpine climate, and the terrain can be described as alpine tundra. Arctic as defined by the arctic circle arctic as defined by temperature back to top This graphic shows the location of the arctic tree line.