About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Forest, Taiga, Woodland, Cloud forest, Understory, Temperate rainforest, Old-growth forest, List of countries by forest area, Laurel forest, Enchanted forest, Intact forest landscape, Urban forest, UN-REDD, Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, Jungle, Secondary forest, Peruvian Yungas, Temperate coniferous forest, Forest fragmentation, Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, Temperate deciduous forest, Selective Logging In the Amazon Rainforest, Evergreen forest, Pygmy forest, Bolivian Yungas, Northern hardwood forest, Forest steppe, Obedska bara, Elfin forest, Forest-savanna mosaic, Cockshoot, Riparian forest, University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Hemiboreal, Gallery forest, Sugar bush, Cypress forest, Oak-hickory forest, Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, Reserve forest, Thorn forest, Ponderosa shrub forest, Boreal ecosystem, State forest, Protected forest, Temperate forest, Deodar Forests. Excerpt: Taiga (pronounced, Russian: from Turkic or Mongolian), also known as the boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome and covers: in North America most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States; and in most of Sweden, Finland, inland and northern Norway, much of Russia (especially Siberia), northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan (on the island of Hokkaidō). The term boreal forest is sometimes, particularly in Canada, used to refer to the more southerly part of the biome, while the term taiga is often used to describe the more barren areas of the northernmost part of the taiga approaching the tree line. The term taiga is of Russian origin. White Spruce taiga, Denali Highway, Alaska Range, Alaska Taiga is the world's largest land biom...
