GEMET
General
Multilingual
Environmental
Thesaurus
polar ecosystem
Definition

The interacting systems of the biological communities and their nonliving environmental surroundings located in the regions where the air temperature is perennially below 10° Celsius, usually at and near the North and South Poles.

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Scope note

Scope note is not available.

Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/6362