Arctic

National
Wildlife
Refuge
By; Ben, Michael, Erica and Isabella

Table of contents
Introduction..Slide 3

Abiotic data...Slide 4 - 6
Biotic Data..Slide 7 - 8
Food web.Slide 9

Issues.Slide 10
ResourcesSlide 11

Location
The Arctic Wildlife Refuge is a tundra biome.
It is located in Alaska, Barrow.
The Latitude is 71.3 degrees north and 156.77 degrees
west..

Some of the major characteristics of the tundra are

Cold climate,
Low precipitation,
Not a lot of wildlife and plant species

Abiotic Data
There is little precipitation during the summer or winter.
The most precipitation falls on July and August.
It snows almost all the time.

 The average lowest temperature is about 5 degrees.

The average lowest temperature is about -26 degrees
Celsius
The average lowest temperature is -25 degrees.

Date

Hours of daylight

January 21

Down all day

February 21

8 HR 6 min

March 21

12 HR 34 min

April 21

17 HR 44 min

May 21

Up all day

June 21

Up all day

July 21

Up all day

August 21

17 HR 32 min

September 21

12 HR 29 min

October 21

7 HR 44 min

November 21

Down all day

December 21

Down all day

The equinox's are in

March and
September
In December,
November and
January the sun is
down all day
May, June and July,
the sun is up all day
October has the
shortest amount of
daylight

Biotic Data
Animals

foxes, wolves, foxes, polar bears, willow ptarmigan,

lynx, snowy owls, caribou, seals, fish, birds

Weasels, rabbits, hares, and musk ox have 2 layers of

hair

Biotic diversity in arctic tundra is low.

Plants
Important producers that are in the tundra are moss,
reindeer lichen, cotton grass, sedges, and willows.
Grasses and sedges form in protective clumps
called tussocks.
Tundra plants are adapted to grow in harsh
environment. Also the amount of energy made from
the producer is low.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Producer

Primary

Secondary

Tertiary

Quantiary

Decomposer

Alphine
Azaela

Willow
ptarmigan

Snowshoe
hare

Wolverine

Black fly

Bacteria

Reindeer
lichen

Snowshoe
hare

Lynx

Mosquito

Mosquito

Arctic willow Musk ox

Brown bear

Black fly

Labrador tea Caribou

Arctic fox

Brown bear

Arctic sedge

Brown
lemming

Least weasel Lynx

Brown Bear

Wolverine

Snowy owl

Issues

People are debating if there should be oil drilling in the

coastal plains

The oil moves through the rocks and make microscopic

holes in the ground

During the seismic exploration activities in march 1985,

vehicles compacted the snow and damaged underlying
plants

Fifteen years later scars from the seismic exploration

activities can still be seen.

Resources
Fosswebnyc.com
Timeanddate.com

Wildtracks.wordpress.com