North American Terrestrial Ecoregions—Level III

The information contained herein is the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of the CEC, or the governments of Canada, Mexico or the United States of America. [...] Vegetation: Most of the area is barren and consists of ice and snow. [...] Vegetation: Discontinuous groundcover of mosses, lichens, and cold-hardy vascular plants, such as sedge and cottongrass, dominate northern areas and to the south grade increasingly into patches of low-lying and dwarf forms of arctic deciduous and evergreen shrubs. [...] Terrain: The largely coastal plains of the region are underlain by unconsolidated sands and gravel and are characterized by low and rolling hills. [...] 16 2.2 Alaska Tundra 2.2.1 Arctic Coastal Plain Location: This ecoregion occurs west of the Mackenzie River along the coast of the Beaufort Sea and near the international boundary between Alaska and the Yukon, Canada.