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  2. Tundra - Wikipedia

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    The soil there is frozen from 25 to 90 cm (10 to 35 in) down, making it impossible for trees to grow there. Instead, bare and sometimes rocky land can only support certain kinds of Arctic vegetation, low-growing plants such as moss, heath (Ericaceae varieties such as crowberry and black bearberry), and lichen. [6] [7]

  3. List of superlative trees - Wikipedia

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    Each of the trees in this stand is a genetically identical male that has reproduced vegetatively. Although no single tree in this stand is of that age, the stand itself as a single organism has existed that long. [116] Individual trees in the clonal patch have been listed as having ages of 2000 [117] [118] or even to 3000 years old. [119] [120]

  4. Ecology of the Rocky Mountains - Wikipedia

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    In the southern Rocky Mountains, a transition occurs between about 5,900 and 8,200 feet (1,800 and 2,500 m), where plains communities are accompanied by pinyon pines. Two-Needle Pinyon's and singleleaf pinyons are found in western Utah, alligator junipers and Rocky Mountain junipers grow to the south, and Utah junipers grow to the north. Many ...

  5. Taiga - Wikipedia

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    In Canada and Scandinavia, the growing season is often estimated by using the period of the year when the 24-hour average temperature is +5 °C (41 °F) or more. [16] For the Taiga Plains in Canada, growing season varies from 80 to 150 days, and in the Taiga Shield from 100 to 140 days. [17] Other sources define growing season by frost-free ...

  6. Alpine plant - Wikipedia

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    Alpine plants are adapted to the harsh conditions of the alpine environment, which include low temperatures, dryness, ultraviolet radiation, wind, drought, poor nutritional soil, and a short growing season. Some alpine plants serve as medicinal plants. Alpine meadows in the Kazbegi National Park, Georgia

  7. Tree - Wikipedia

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    The tree growth habit is an evolutionary adaptation found in different groups of plants: by growing taller, trees are able to compete better for sunlight. [14] Trees tend to be tall and long-lived, [15] some reaching several thousand years old. [16] Several trees are among the oldest organisms now living. [17]

  8. Deciduous - Wikipedia

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    Forests where a majority of the trees lose their foliage at the end of the typical growing season are called deciduous forests. These forests are found in many areas worldwide and have distinctive ecosystems, understory growth, and soil dynamics. [20] Two distinctive types of deciduous forests are found growing around the world.

  9. Rowan - Wikipedia

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    The rowans (/ ˈ r aʊ ə n z / ROW-ənz or / ˈ r oʊ ə n z / ROH-ənz) [1] or mountain-ashes are shrubs or trees in the genus Sorbus of the rose family, Rosaceae.They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the Himalaya, southern Tibet and parts of western China, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. [2]

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