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arctic | American Dictionary

arctic
adjective
us/ˈɑrk·tɪk/
extremely cold:
Arctic air stung New England with freezing temperatures.
Arctic
noun[ U ]
us/ˈɑrk·tɪk/
the large and extremely cold area around the North Pole:
The Arctic is not a barren wasteland.

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Arctic
Arctic facts, at once manipulated into realistic, or equally into fantastical, fiction, provided a rich visual and imaginative resource.
If arctic char feed opportunistically, there should not be statistically significant relationships between parasite occurrence and food items found infishstomachs.
Also, the massive infection can disturb the locomotion and escape ability of the voles making them more susceptible to predation by arctic foxes.
Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate: an ecological perspective.
This poised stillness of the flat, permafrost-covered arctic landscape contrasts with the extreme annual fluctuation of temperature and light.
Long-term environmental monitoring in arctic lakes and ponds using diatoms and other biological indicators.
At each of these sites nearly all metazoan parasites of arctic char are transmitted via the lacustrine food web.
Modelling the response of arctic plants to changing climate.
Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate: an ecophysiological perspective.
These two species between them are transmitted in arctic, temperate and tropical biomes.
An alternative explanation could be that it first arrived with the introduced voles and thereafter succeeded in establishing itself with involvement of local arctic foxes.
The other two circumpolar (in fact global) vegetation maps that we studied proved to be rather far from optimal for arctic vegetation.
Simulating arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation.
The ability to detect and assess changes in the distribution of arctic vegetation in future clearly depends on the availability of suitable baseline maps.
The two zones that lie in between - the regions between the tropics and the arctic circles - are temperate and therefore habitable.
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