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The continent of Europe comprises a large part of the Palearctic ecozone, with many unique biomes and ecoregions. Biogeographically, Europe is tied closely to Siberia, commonly known as the Euro-Siberian region. The European Environmental Agency (EEA) divides Europe into a total of eleven terrestrial biogeographical regions and seven regional ...
The Urals montane tundra and taiga ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0610) covers the main ridge of the Ural Mountains (both sides) - a 2,000 km (north-south) by 300 km (west-east) region. The region is on the divide between European and Asian ecoregions, and also the meeting point of tundra and taiga.
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 ...
Alpine tundra in the North Cascades of Washington, United States. Alpine tundra does not contain trees because the climate and soils at high altitude block tree growth. [26]: 51 The cold climate of the alpine tundra is caused by the low air temperatures, and is similar to polar climate. Alpine tundra is generally better drained than arctic ...
Here are some blank maps for color and label in different languages. ... Location Map Asia.svg: ... BlankEurope.png – A large map of Europe. 1236x1245px 44.18 KB.
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 ...
Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra: Canada United States: Torngat Mountain tundra: Canada: Palearctic realm; Arctic desert: Russia: Bering tundra: Russia: Cherskii–Kolyma mountain tundra: Russia: Chukchi Peninsula tundra: Russia: Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra: Russia: Kola Peninsula tundra: Norway Russia: Northeast ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Mountain ranges of Europe by country (36 C) * Mountain ranges of the Alps (76 C, 197 P)