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  2. Taiga - Wikipedia

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    Taiga or tayga (/ ˈ t aɪ ɡ ə / TY-gə; Russian: тайга́, IPA:), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. The taiga, or boreal forest, is the world's largest land biome. [1]

  3. Scandinavian and Russian taiga - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Boreal forest of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Boreal forests occur in the more southern parts of the taiga ecoregion that spreads across the northern parts of the world. 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]

  5. Boreal ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    Boreal forest near Shovel Point in Tettegouche State Park, along the northern shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.. A boreal ecosystem is an ecosystem with a subarctic climate located in the Northern Hemisphere, approximately between 50° and 70°N latitude.

  6. Taiga of North America - Wikipedia

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    Taiga (boreal forests) has amazing natural resources that are being exploited by humans. Human activities have a huge effect on the taiga ecoregions mainly through extensive logging, natural gas extraction, and mine-fracking. This results in the loss of habitat and increases the rate of deforestation.

  7. Template:Nearctic boreal forest/taiga ecoregions - Wikipedia

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    Copper Plateau taiga: United States: Eastern Canadian forests: Canada: Eastern Canadian Shield taiga: Canada: Interior Alaska–Yukon lowland taiga: Canada, United States: Mid-Continental Canadian forests: Canada: Midwestern Canadian Shield forests: Canada: Muskwa–Slave Lake forests: Canada: Newfoundland Highland forests: Canada: Northern ...

  8. List of ecoregions in Europe - Wikipedia

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    1.3 Taiga and Boreal forests. 1.4 Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. ... Map Photo PA0602 Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra: Iceland PA0608

  9. Northern Canadian Shield taiga - Wikipedia

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    Northern Canadian Shield taiga is a taiga ecoregion located in northern Canada, stretching from Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories to Hudson Bay in eastern Nunavut. The region supports conifer forests to its northern edge, where the territory grades into tundra .