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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 ...
Taiga or tayga (/ ˈ t aɪ ɡ ə / TY-gə; Russian: тайга́, IPA:), 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]
East Siberian taiga ; Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests ; Kamchatka-Kurile taiga ; Northeast Siberian taiga ; Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga ; Sakhalin Island taiga ; Scandinavian and Russian taiga (Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden) Trans-Baikal conifer forests (Mongolia, Russia) Urals montane tundra and taiga
Scandinavian and Russian taiga: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia Taiga and Boreal forests: PA0610 Ural montane forests and tundra: Russia PA0807 Faroe Islands boreal grasslands: Faroe Islands PA0814 Pontic steppe: Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands: PA1101 Arctic desert: Norway and ...
Sakhalin Island taiga; Sarmatic mixed forests; Sayan alpine meadows and tundra; Sayan intermontane steppe; Sayan montane conifer forests; Scandinavian and Russian taiga; Selenge–Orkhon forest steppe; South Sakhalin–Kurile mixed forests; South Siberian forest steppe; Southern Siberian rainforest; Suiphun–Khanka meadows and forest meadows
Lapland Reserve is located in the Scandinavian and Russian taiga ecoregion, which is situated in Northern Europe between tundra in the north and temperate mixed forests in the south. It is covers parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the northern part of European Russia, being the largest ecoregion in Europe.
The Northeast Siberian taiga ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0605) is an area of "sparse taiga forest" between the Lena River and the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, Russia.The ecoregion's internal borders form a patchwork of territory constituting the southern part of the East Siberian Lowland, as well as lowlands around the East Siberian Mountains, including the ridges and peaks of the ...
The ecoregion is centered on the West Siberian Plain, a flat lowland that only ranges from 100 meters to 300 meters above sea level. The western edge of the region is the Urals mountains, and the western half of the region is dominated by the Ob River and its main tributary the Irtysh River.