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Temperate coniferous forest is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Temperate coniferous forests are found predominantly in areas with warm summers and cool winters, and vary in their kinds of plant life.
A temperate forest is a forest found between the tropical and boreal regions, ... Coniferous forests are composed of needle-leaved evergreen trees, such as pine or ...
Taiga or tayga (/ ˈ t aɪ ɡ ə / TY-gə; [тайга́] Error: {{Langx}}: invalid parameter: |p= ), 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]
Montane forests in temperate climate are typically one of temperate coniferous forest or temperate broadleaf and mixed forest, forest types that are well known from Europe and northeastern North America. Montane forests outside Europe tend to be more species-rich, because Europe during the Pleistocene offered smaller-area refugia from the glaciers.
The Southeastern conifer forests are a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of the southeastern United States. It is the largest conifer forest ecoregion east of the Mississippi River. [2] It is also the southernmost instance of temperate coniferous forest within the Nearctic realm.
The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km 2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma. These coniferous forests are dominated by several species of pine as well as hardwoods including hickory and oak.
Temperate coniferous forests of the United States (1 C, 31 P) Temperate rainforests (3 C, 21 P) W. Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (6 P)
The Alps conifer and mixed forests is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion in central Europe. It extends along the Alps mountains through portions of France , Italy , Switzerland , Germany , Liechtenstein , Austria , and Slovenia .