Taiga and Boreal Forests: Taiga, Boreal Forest of Canada, Birds of North American Boreal Forests, Aspen Parkland, Arctic Ecology, Picea Glauca

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Arctic ecology, Aspen parkland, Beaver Hills (Alberta), Birds of North American boreal forests, Boreal Forest Conservation Framework, Boreal forest of Canada, Central Canadian Shield forests, Cook Inlet taiga, Copper Plateau taiga, Eastern Canadian forests, Eastern Canadian Shield taiga, East Siberian taiga, Evergreen forest, Hemiboreal, Hudson Plains Ecozone (CEC), Mid-Continental Canadian forests, Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, Muskwa-Slave Lake forests, Newfoundland Highland forests, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Romincka Forest, Scandinavian and Russian taiga, Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands, Taiga Rescue Network, Taiga Shield Ecozone (CEC), West Siberian Plain, Yukon Interior dry forests. Excerpt: Taiga (; Russian: IPA: from Turkic or Mongolian), also known as boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches. The taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States (northern Minnesota through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Upstate New York and northern New England) and is known as the Northwoods. In Eurasia, it covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Norway, lowland/coastal areas of Iceland, much of Russia from Karelia in the west to the Pacific ocean (including much of Siberia), and areas of northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan (on the island of Hokkaid ). However, the main tree species, the length of the growing season and summer temperatures vary. For example, the taiga of North America consists of mainly spruces; Scandinavian and Finnish taiga consists of a mix of spruce, pines and birch; Russian taiga has spruces, pines and larches depending on the region, the Eastern Siberian taiga being a vast larch forest. The term "boreal forest" is sometimes used (particularly in Canada but also in Scandinavia and Finland) 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 and the tundra biome. White Spruce taiga, Denali Highway, Alaska Range, Alaska Taiga is the world's largest land biome, and makes up 29% of the world's forest cover; the largest areas are located in Russia and Canada. The taiga is the terrestrial biome with the lowest annual average temperatures after the tundra and permanent ice caps. Extreme winter minimums in the northern taiga are typically lower than those of the tundra. The lowest reliably recorded temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were recorded in the taiga of northeastern Russia. The taiga or bo