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The coastal tundra at Barrow, Alaska. Several broad objectives guided the research design of the U.S.
Tundra Biome program from its inception: 1) to develop a predictive understanding of how the tundra system operates, particularly as exemplified by the wet coastal tundra of northern Alaska; 2) to obtain the necessary data base from a variety of cold-dominated ecosystems represented
in the United States so that their behavior could be modeled and simulated and the results compared with similar studies underway in other circumpolar countries; and 3) to bring basic environmental knowledge to bear on problems of degradation, maintenance, and restoration of the
temperature-sensitive and cold-dominated tundra and taiga ecosystems.