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The ecoregion is centered on the West Siberian Plain, a flat lowland that only ranges from 100 meters to 300 meters above sea level. The western edge of the region is the Urals mountains, and the western half of the region is dominated by the Ob River and its main tributary the Irtysh River.
The West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests, also known as the Western Siberian hemiboreal forests, is an ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0444) in Russia. It consists of a thin band of mixed forest along the southernmost edge of the West Siberian taiga (coniferous forests) in Western Siberia, and north of the forest steppe belt.
Kamchatka-Kurile taiga ; Northeast Siberian taiga ; Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga ; Sakhalin Island taiga ; Scandinavian and Russian taiga (Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden) Trans-Baikal conifer forests (Mongolia, Russia) Urals montane tundra and taiga ; West Siberian taiga
This vast ecoregion is located in the heart of Siberia, stretching over 20° of latitude and 50° of longitude [1] (52° to 72° N, and 80° to 130° E). The climate in the East Siberian taiga is subarctic (the trees growing there are coniferous and deciduous) and displays high continentality, with extremes ranging from 40 °C (104 °F) to −65 °C (−85 °F) and possibly lower.
Little Sosva is located in the West Siberian taiga ecoregion, a region that covers the West Siberian Plain, from the Urals to the Central Siberian Plateau. It is a region of extensive conifer boreal forests, and also extensive wetlands, including bogs and mires.
The western edge of the region is the Russian Plain, and the eastern edge is the beginning of the West Siberian Plain. [2] To the north is the Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra ecoregion, to the west are the Scandinavian and Russian taiga , Sarmatic mixed forests and East European forest steppe ecoregions, to the east the West Siberian ...
The terrestrial ecoregion of Pripyshminskiye is West Siberian taiga (WWF ID#611), a region characterized by coniferous forests of pine, spruce and larch. [3] The freshwater ecoregion is classified as "Ob River Basin" (FEOW ID#602), characterized by plains river topography, continental climate, and complexes of freshwater fish that in the lower latitudes include boreal river families such as ...
Upper Taz is located in the West Siberian taiga ecoregion, a region that covers the West Siberian Plain, from the Urals to the Central Siberian Plateau. It is an area of extensive conifer boreal forests, and also extensive wetlands, including bogs and mires.