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- Taiga | Plants, Animals, Climate, Location, Facts | Britannica
Taiga, biome composed mainly of cone-bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in northern circumpolar regions typified by long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation Taiga, ‘land of the little sticks’ in Russian, is named for the term for Russia’s northern forests, especially Siberia
- North America - Boreal Forest, Wildlife, Ecosystems | Britannica
North America - Boreal Forest, Wildlife, Ecosystems: One of the greatest sweeps of forest in the world, the boreal forest (or taiga) extends in a vast and virtually unbroken sheet of green eastward from the Aleutian Islands through Alaska and northern Canada to the island of Newfoundland Its conifers are much shorter than those of the Pacific Coast but grow in denser, sometimes almost
- Forest | Definition, Ecology, Types, Trees, Examples, Facts | Britannica
A forest is a complex ecological system in which trees are the dominant life-form A forest is nature’s most efficient ecosystem, with a high rate of photosynthesis affecting both plant and animal systems in a series of complex organic relationships Forests can develop under various conditions, and the kind of soil, plant, and animal life differs according to the extremes of environmental
- Temperate forest | Description, Types, Plants, Animals, Facts . . .
Temperate forest, vegetation type with a more or less continuous canopy of broad-leaved trees They occur between approximately 25 and 50 degrees latitude in both hemispheres Toward the polar regions they grade into boreal forests dominated by conifers, creating mixed forests of deciduous and coniferous trees
- Arctic - Flora, Fauna, Tundra | Britannica
Arctic - Flora, Fauna, Tundra: Two main vegetation zones are found in the polar lands In the south is the subarctic, formed by the northern subzones of the circumpolar boreal forest To the north is the Arctic proper, where the vegetation is generally referred to as tundra, from the Finnish word for an open rolling plain; in North America the descriptive term Barren Grounds is frequently
- Tropical rainforest - Flora, Fauna, Relationships | Britannica
Tropical rainforest - Flora, Fauna, Relationships: Some of the tallest trees and lianas, and the epiphytes they support, bear flowers and fruits at the top of the rainforest canopy, where the air moves unfettered by vegetation They are able to depend on the wind for dispersal of pollen from flower to flower, as well as for the spreading of fruits and seeds away from the immediate environment
- Asia - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems | Britannica
Asia - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems: An immense range of vegetation is found in Asia, the result of the continent’s wide diversity of latitude, elevation, and climate Natural conditions, however, are not entirely responsible for the associations of trees, plants, and grasses of Asia; natural landscapes have been transformed by more than eight millennia of farming and other human activities The
- Europe - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems | Britannica
Europe - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems: The terms “natural,” “original,” and “primitive,” as epithets applied to the vegetation of Europe, have no precise meaning unless they are related to a specific time in geologic history It is nevertheless possible to envisage continental vegetation zones as they formed and acquired some stability during postglacial times, although such zones are
- Deciduous forest | Definition, Climate, Characteristics | Britannica
Deciduous forest, vegetation composed primarily of broad-leaved trees that shed all their leaves during one season This biome is found primarily in three middle-latitude regions with a temperate climate characterized by a winter season and year-round precipitation
- Mixed forest | Tree Diversity, Biodiversity Ecosystems | Britannica
mixed forest, a vegetational transition between coniferous forest and broad-leaved deciduous forest, especially in the Northern Hemisphere “Mixed forest” also may denote a forest with two or more dominant tree species In North America, the term is often used to designate the forest of the Appalachian Plateau, characterized by many tree species and moderate precipitation
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