![]() ![]() The platform is designed to help customers overcome the skills shortage in the cybersecurity industry. Viking Global Investors and Owl Rock, a division of Blue Owl Capital, led today’s Series F round, together with participation from other existing investors.Īrctic Wolf sells a cloud-native managed detection and response platform that’s used by enterprise customers to detect potential threats within their information technology networks and systems. has raised an additional $150 million in a late-stage funding round that takes its value to $4.3 billion. ![]() Printing Office, Washington, D.C.Security operations startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment. Priority conservation actions for the next decade are: 1) greatly expand the network of protected areas across the ecoregion 2) prohibit incompatible uses, including oil production, within designated protected areas and 3) protect vulnerable species from over-harvest and monitor populations.ġ. ![]() Existing development is centered in the city of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) and in the vicinity of Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America, the origin of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and the terminus of the Pan-American Highway. The largely intact habitat but poor protection status make this ecoregion a high priority for vast expansion of protected areas, especially given the threat of increased oil production. Besides black brant, notable birds here include red phalarope, red-necked phalarope, dunlin, pectoral sandpiper, semipalmated sandpiper, eiders, and a colony of Aleutian terns.i This lagoon, which extends for more than 170 km along the coast, is one of the largest and most intact coastal lagoon systems in the world and has been designated an Audubon Important Bird Area. The Kasegaluk Lagoon in the western portion of the ecoregion supports thousands of beluga whales every summer, hundreds of spotted seals and walrus, and is a critical staging area for migrating Pacific black brant. The only breeding sites for snow geese in Alaska are small areas within this ecoregion. Image credit: Walter Siegmund, Creative Commons The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge within this ecoregion is the center of distribution for musk ox in Alaska. Three significant caribou herds-the Arctic, Central Arctic, and Porcupine-migrate here each year to breed. Seabirds and waterfowl are abundant, as are Arctic char. The dominant vegetation is wet tundra, fens, bogs, and marshes dominated by grasses, sedges, and mosses interspersed with dwarf shrub communities on higher, better-drained sites, with dwarf birch, willow, alder, and northern Labrador tea.Ĭharacteristic mammals found in this ecoregion include are walrus, seals, beluga whale, polar bear, wolf, barren-ground caribou, musk ox, snowshoe hare, Arctic hare, red fox, and Arctic ground squirrel. The annual precipitation is low, averaging 100–300 mm, but can be higher near the southern boundary. In winter the mean daily minimum temperature is -30 oC and the mean daily maximum temperature is 8 oC. The summer growing season extends from mid-June through August, with mean temperatures of around 4.5 oC. Permafrost is continuous and thick, with very high ice content, abundant ice wedges, and pingos (mounds of earth-covered ice). Image credit: Arturo de Frias Marques, Creative Commons With 91% of the area outside protected areas still intact, opportunities to increase protection are vast but must be pursued quickly before additional oil development and other threats increase. Only 4% of the ecoregion lies within protected areas. Importantly, along with the Arctic Foothills Tundra ecoregion, much of the Arctic Coastal Tundra was unglaciated during the Pleistocene and formed part of the extensive Bering Sea Pleistocene Refugium, which preserved Arctic plant communities during glacial periods.Īlthough a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the largest wildlife refuge in the U.S., lies within the Arctic Coastal Tundra ecoregion, the ecoregion on the whole is poorly protected. The flagship species of the Arctic Coastal Tundra ecoregion is the Beluga whale. The terrain is characterized by mostly poor drainage and many thaw lakes, which cover up to 50% of the ecoregion and distinguish it from the Canadian Low Arctic Tundra ecoregion to the east. It is bounded on the south by the Arctic Foothills Tundra ecoregion. It is a low (0–150 m elevation), gradually rising coastal plain along the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic Coastal Tundra ecoregion forms most of the northern coastline of Alaska. ![]()
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