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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 ...
Alpine tundra occurs at high enough altitude at any latitude.Portions of montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregions worldwide include alpine tundra. Large regions of alpine tundra occur in the North American Cordillera and parts of the northern Appalachian Mountains in North America, the Alps and Pyrenees of Europe, the Himalaya and Karakoram of Asia, the Andes of South America, the Eastern ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...
All the ranges in the Alpine region have high altitude, rugged terrain and a relatively cold and harsh climate. The mountains all have the same zones of vegetation, but further north the low temperature zones are found lower down. On the lower slopes there are forests and grasslands.
The Western European broadleaf forests is an ecoregion in Western Europe, and parts of the Alps. It comprises temperate broadleaf and mixed forests , that cover large areas of France, Germany and the Czech Republic and more moderately sized parts of Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and South Limburg (Netherlands).
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