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Boreal (age), the first climatic phase of the Blytt-Sernander sequence of northern Europe, during the Holocene epoch; Boreal climate, a climate characterized by long winters and short, cool to mild summers; Boreal ecosystem, an ecosystem with a subarctic climate in the Northern Hemisphere; Boreal forest, a biome characterized by coniferous forests
A boreal ecosystem is an ecosystem with a subarctic climate located in the Northern Hemisphere, approximately between 50° and 70°N latitude. These ecosystems are commonly known as taiga and are located in parts of North America , Europe , and Asia . [ 1 ]
The Preboreal-Boreal in Europe was a time of transition from the Palaeolithic cultures to the Mesolithic. Forests and drowned coastlands were places of plenty. Human settlements avoided the deep forest in favor of streams, lakes, and especially bays of the ocean. Pre-Boreal settlements have been found in north-central Europe, such as at ...
Canada's boreal forest is a vast region comprising about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of the 50th parallel. [1] Other countries with boreal forest include Russia , which contains the majority; the United States in its northernmost state of Alaska ; and the Scandinavian or Northern ...
Within the European Union, the list of Natura 2000 sites in the Boreal Region was adopted in January 2005 and has since been updated several times. As of 2009 there were 6,266 Sites of Community Importance under the Habitats Directive covering more than 111,000 square kilometres (43,000 sq mi) and 1,165 Special Protection Areas under the Birds ...
A hemiboreal forest has some characteristics of a boreal forest to the north, and also shares features with temperate-zone forests to the south. A significant number of nut species, such as aspens, oaks, maples, ash trees, birches, beeches, hazels, and hornbeams, can be found here.
Although temperate and tropical forests in total cover twice as much land as boreal forest, boreal forest contains 20% more carbon than the other two combined. [1] Boreal forests are susceptible to global warming because the ice/snow–albedo feedback is significantly influenced by surface temperature, so fire induced changes in surface albedo and infrared emissivity are more significant than ...
The Boreal kingdom or Holarctic kingdom (Holarctis) is a floristic kingdom identified (1947) by botanist Ronald Good [1] (and later by Armen Takhtajan), which includes the temperate to Arctic portions of North America and Eurasia.