The low-Arctic tundra site is located in the Kytalyk (Rus: Кыталык) nature reserve in the Indigirka lowlands in northeast Siberia, Russia.
The field site is located approximately 25 km north of Chokurdakh (Rus: Чокурдах) and around 480 km north of the Arctic Circle.
Within a distance of 50km, four tundra vegetation types and the tundra-taiga boundary are occurring according to the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM).
It includes the settlement of Russkoye Ustye (Rus: Ру́сское У́стье), located in the Indigirka delta, about 80 km south of the East Siberian Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
The sites will be accessed using transportation by boat.
Map sources: Google Maps, Internet, Wikimapia
2 Kommentare vorhanden
1 Peter Vollenweider // Jun 28, 2013 at 13:13
nice photos.
Is this a picture of the Lena stream?
2 Michael Schaepman // Jun 28, 2013 at 13:42
dear peter
this is an aerial photograph located at the russko-ustyinskaya protoka – or the left arm of the indigirka river. we are about 900 km east of the lena delta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigirka_River).
you can find a lena river photo on the blog entry dated june 26 (https://www.uzh.ch/blog/gcb-siberia/2013/06/26/first-group-of-scientists-are-catching-up-in-yakutsk/).
thanks for browsing our blog! michael