Iceland has a mostly tundra ecosystem with some coniferous forest. Iceland is limited to these colder ecosystems due to its high latitude which provides difficult conditions for plant growth.
The cool ocean current, high latitude, and the high altitude resulted in cooling of temperature. It had lead to devepment of tundra ecosystem.
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