Arctic Tundra in Winter
Summers are also much shorter than the winters. Typical arctic tundra landscape in Nunavut Source. Stephanie Tundra Biomes Arctic Tundra Landscape The habitat has a long and brutal winter and the barren landscape provides many challenges. . ADialla CC By via Wikimedia Commons. Since it is characterized as a desert climate it gets very little rain so the skies are rarely very cloudy. The Arctic tundra is characterized by short ground-hugging canopies of shrubs grasses sedges mosses and lichens. How much sunlight does the Arctic tundra get. Summers are cool with temperatures that range from 3 to 12 C 37 to 54 F and winters are moderate with temperatures that rarely fall. Arctic tundra is a very cold windy and treeless biome thats snow-covered for much of the year. Though small in stature these organisms play a key role in tundra ecosystem. Due to its northern position the arctic tundra has a very cold climat...