63.31 - Ice sheets and ice caps

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Dome-like ice masses unconstrained by topography, together with their outlet glaciers. They are characteristic of arctic regions. The largest ice sheet in the northern hemisphere is that of Greenland. Smaller ice sheets and ice caps occur in Iceland, Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, southern Norway, Franz Josef Land, Severnaya Zemlya and the islands of the De-Longa group.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Hattersley-Smith, 1974: 195-200, 203-205, 207-209, 210-213; Østrem, 1974: 229; Whittow, 1984; Ellenberg, 1988; Clark, 1990; Einarsson, 1994: 155-162; Lefauconnier and Slupetzky, 1995; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996: 35-45; Summerfield, 1991: 261-263.