Location and General Description
Types and Severity of Threats
Justification of Ecoregion Delineation
This west Siberian tundra is bordered by Urals in the west and the Yenisei to the east. Mapped ecoregion boundaries correspond to the montane and lowland tundra in the Yamalagydanskaya vegetation province (Kurnaev 1990).
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