The resident animals have to make do with the little available food. The herd animals ensure the ecosystem’s plant structure remains intact by helping to improve soil quality and circulate nutrients that include the seeds necessary for. Rainfall may vary in different regions of the arctic.

Yearly precipitation, including melting snow, is 15 to 25 cm (6 to 10 inches). They eat lemmings, arctic hares, fish, birds, eggs, fruit, insects, small seals, and carrion. The animals are not only a food source for indigenous peoples in the area but also predators like wolves and bears.

Arctic hares (lepus arcticus), arctic foxes, and even rock ptarmigans. The growing season ranges from 50 to 60 days. There are a lot of these.

Many northern species grow heavier, whiter fur to camouflage and keep warm in frigid weather. Arctic marine fisheries provide an important food source globally, and are a vital part of the region’s economy. As the arctic is a part of the land masses of europe, north america and asia, these animals can migrate south in the winter and head back to the north again in the more productive summer months.

The arctic has many large land animals including reindeer, musk ox, lemmings, arctic hares, arctic terns, snowy owls, squirrels, arctic fox and polar bears. Rock ptarmigans feed on buds. They scavenge on carcasses left by larger predators as well.