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Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Animals at the extremes: polar biology

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Figure 1
Figure 1 The number of hours of daylight (cream), twilight (light blue) and darkness (dark blue), and the mean temperature (red line) from January to December at (a) Longyearbyen, Svalbard (78° N), and (b) Tromsø, Norway (70° N). The pale red shading shows the range about the mean temperature

 1.2 The polar environment