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Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests (Corsica) Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests; Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests; Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests (Corsica)
Po Basin mixed forests: Italy, Switzerland PA0433 Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests [Note 1] Andorra, France, Spain PA0435 Rodope montane mixed forests [Note 3] Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia PA0436 Sarmatic mixed forests: Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden PA0445 Western European broadleaf ...
The boreal forests in the interior of the continents grow on top of permafrost due to very cold winters (see drunken trees), though much of the boreal forest biome has patchy permafrost or lacks permafrost completely. The short (3–4 month) growing season in boreal forests is sustained by greater levels of rainfall than the tundra receives ...
The boreal forest/taiga supports a relatively small variety of highly specialized and adapted animals, due to the harshness of the climate. Canada's boreal forest includes 85 species of mammals, 130 species of fish, and an estimated 32,000 species of insects. [37] Insects play a critical role as pollinators, decomposers, and as a part of the ...
As of 2005, arctic vegetation covered approximately 5 × 10 ^ 6 km 2 (1.9 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi) of land. [2] The area of Arctic vegetation decreased by approximately 1.4 × 10 ^ 6 km 2 (0.54 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi) from 1980 to 2000, with a corresponding increase in the boreal forest (taiga). [3] This decrease is linked to the warming of the Arctic due to ...
In physical geography, tundra (/ ˈ t ʌ n d r ə, ˈ t ʊ n-/) is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons. There are three regions and associated types of tundra: Arctic, [2] Alpine, [2] and Antarctic. [3] Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges, grasses, mosses, and lichens ...
The Scandinavian and Russian taiga is an ecoregion within the taiga and boreal forests biome as defined by the WWF classification (ecoregion PA0608). [1] It is situated in Northern Europe between tundra in the north and temperate mixed forests in the south and occupies about 2,156,900 km 2 (832,800 sq mi) in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the northern part of European Russia, being the largest ...
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