(a.) Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mosquito-borne arboviruses are prevalent throughout subarctic regions of Canada and Alaska, principally in the boreal forest extending between latitudes 53 and 66 degrees N, but they have been identified in tundra regions as far north as 70 degrees N. All mosquito-borne agents have been bunyaviruses, comprising principally the snowshoe hare subtype of California encephalitis (CE) virus, but also Northway virus.
(2) T6 is present in carnivores in the subarctic-temperate area of the Nearctic region; and T7 (T. nelsoni) in Hyaenidae and Felidae of Equatorial Africa.
(3) This study examined whether cold, short day or melatonin causes reproductive regression and stimulates nonshivering thermogenesis in a subarctic rodent Clethrionomys rutilus.
(4) Replication of a subarctic Bunyavirus, California encephalitis (snowshoe hare subtype), was detected in salivary glands and thoraces of wild-caught Aedes communis mosquitoes from the Yokon Territory, after intrathoracic inoculation with 0.1 to 100 mouse LD50 virus, and incubation for 7 to 21 days throughout their viable temperature range of 0 to 23 degrees C. Immunoperoxidase staining confirmed that viral replication occurred in the cytoplasm of acinar cells of salivary glands, both by ligh microscopy and electron microscopy.
(5) The results suggest that small arctic-subarctic rodents have a greater capacity for NE stimulated NST than rodents from temperate latitudes probably because they are acclimatized to colder seasonal condtions.
(6) Iceland is a rugged subarctic island 600 miles from Norway and 500 miles from Scotland.
(7) Moving and still air 0 degrees C to -35 degrees C in both laboratory and subarctic outdoor settings were used.
(8) Athapaskan populations evidently moved south from Beringia sometime after the Paleoindian migration when the "ice free" corridor had widened and contained environments and resources more typical of subarctic latitudes.
(9) The applicability of A. R. Omran's 'epidemiologic transition' theory to subarctic Indians in Canada is examined in a historical review of health and demographic data.
(10) Antigenically-related viruses have therefore now been isolated from I. uriae in both subarctic and subantarctic regions.
(11) Reindeer inhabit a severe arctic or subarctic environment, with the young born in early spring under adverse weather conditions.
(12) Among the Cree-Ojibwa Indians in the subarctic boreal forest of northern Manitoba and Ontario, a high prevalence of clinical gallbladder disease (18.5% among women aged 20-64) was observed.
(13) Interactive simultaneity draws on the human-living-health model of nurse theorist Rosemarie Parse and the author's research on the healing activity of arctic and subarctic medicine women to enhance contemporary clinical practice in a variety of situations.
(14) The absence of these subarctic leeches from Baikal itself is explained by their rheophily.
(15) Radionuclides, especially the long-lived 137Cs (physical half-life 30 years), are accumulated efficiently in the northern, subarctic, lichen-reindeer-man foodchain.
(16) Two field experiments in a subarctic environment are described.
(17) Sediment samples were collected from a subarctic salt marsh on James Bay, Ontario in May 1976.
(18) An analysis of seasonal changes in energy budget of the farmed polecat (Mustela putorius) was performed in subarctic climate.
(19) T2 (T. nativa) is present in terrestrial mammals and seldom in sea mammals of arctic and subarctic regions.
(20) Although fish tapeworm infections in arctic and subarctic residents are often attributed to the cestode Diphyllobothrium latum, other Diphyllobothrium species are frequently responsible.
Tundra
Definition:
(n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strains of the causative agent of tularemia were for the first time isolated by the authors from the objects of the external environment in the tundra zone of Eastern Taimir; this indicates a possibility of preservation of the microbe under conditions of the extreme north.
(2) Drainage melioration in the Polesye resulted in a sharp increase in the number of tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus Pall.)
(3) Mosquito-borne arboviruses are prevalent throughout subarctic regions of Canada and Alaska, principally in the boreal forest extending between latitudes 53 and 66 degrees N, but they have been identified in tundra regions as far north as 70 degrees N. All mosquito-borne agents have been bunyaviruses, comprising principally the snowshoe hare subtype of California encephalitis (CE) virus, but also Northway virus.
(4) The postoncospheral development and cycle of Taenia polyacantha Leuckart, 1856, an holarctic species of cestode, were investigated in the laboratory as well as in the tundra of northern Alaska.
(5) There were found 26 parasitic and nonparasitic species of Gamasoidea, 3 species of Ixodidae and 2 species of Trombiculidae, 10 species of Aphaniptera, 3 species of Anoplura but there was found no species specific only for the tundra vole.
(6) Tundra peregrine eggs contain an average of 889 parts of DDE per million (lipid basis); taiga peregrine eggs contain 673 parts per million; Aleutian peregrine eggs contain 167 parts per million; rough-legged hawk eggs contain 22.5 parts per million; and gyrfalcon eggs contain 3.88 parts per million.
(7) Although the coastal natives' diet was higher in calories and fats than tundra inhabitants'; it was rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, the main source of which was sea-animal meat.
(8) "That's why increasing tundra wildfires have the potential to accelerate the melting in Greenland," Box said.
(9) Temperature rises in excess of this may trigger a "tipping point" in places such as the Arctic tundra where permafrost would melt rapidly, releasing large amounts of methane which has a global warming effect eight times greater than CO2.
(10) Tundra and taiga peregrines have fledged progressively fewer young each year since 1966.
(11) Packers 7-6 49ers, 5:50, 2nd quarter Rodgers on the move - he's running to his right, and fires a strike to Nelson who MAKES THE CATCH and falls to the not-so-frozen tundra (they have sub-turf heating)!
(12) More than 1,000bn tonnes of carbon are stored in the soils beneath the Arctic tundra, double humanity’s emissions since the industrial revolution.
(13) Structural and functional features of plants from cold regions such as high mountain and tundra environments are characterized.
(14) Even though it has a great sense of smell - it can sniff a dog 35ft away - and can jump two feet to catch a beetle, and that a Russian hedgehog once found its way back home after it had been dropped 48 miles away across the tundra, the hedgehog is not, on the whole, a very clever creature.
(15) and Greyjoy fight one another while otherworldly ice demons rise in the northern tundra, and the Westerosi equivalent of nuclear weapons – dragons – are reaching maturity on a distant continent.
(16) The species was found in the rhizosphere of Vaccinum uliginosum and Arctous alpina from the mountain tundra of Kamchatka.
(17) The high northern latitudes are warming more rapidly than other parts of the Earth, with climate models predicting a northward shift of Arctic vegetation that will see the boreal biome (coniferous forest across North America and Eurasia) migrate into what is currently tundra (treeless plains of the Arctic).
(18) On land, shrubs are spreading across the lower Arctic because of a longer growing season, but other tundra plant types – such as moss and lichen – are declining.
(19) The mass radioisotope (32P) labelling of all tundra voles excreting Zeptospira, infected urine was carried out over the area of 1 ha, and the results of the experiment analyzed by the method of planar coherent graphs, showed the irregular (spotted) distribution of "infected spots", i. e. soil patches contaminated by Zeptospira.
(20) Speaking to a handful of journalists at Sporting’s training field yesterday (including one pale, bearded specimen huddled into the corner of his office nearest the baseboard heater), Vermes recalled playing in a game in freezing rain at the Rutgers Bowl, before airily gesturing at the tundra beyond his window and saying, “this is nothing.” I expect him to wear one of those t-shirts with a shirt and tie printed on it for the final.