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Habitat types key navigation

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You can use the 'key navigation' function to identify a specific habitat by answering a set of questions. Starting from first question to next questions you select one of the possible answers. Here are samples of possible answers:

No ( 002 ) - Leading to question named '002'
Yes [ G ] - Leading to another questions subset of level G
No [ E6 ] - Links directly to factsheet for E6

Additionally the diagram may be used for reference.

Category : (D3 )Aapa, palsa and polygon mires
Diagram :

Question d05 : Ice perpetually present?

Mires developing in permafrost zones where ice is present as a central solid ice core in a raised butte (path = Yes), are separated.

Answers:

Yes

[ D3.1 ]

No (

d06 )

Question d06 : Pattern type

Patterned frost-dependent mires are separated between aapa mires consisting of ridges and hummocks with alternating hollows, transverse to the slope, and mires characterised by structures of large polygons, 10 to 30 m in diameter, formed by the juxtaposition of dry ridges, 0.3 to 0.5 m high, and wet hollows.

Answers:

ridges and hummocks

[ D3.2 ]

polygons

[ D3.3 ]

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