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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 ...
There are taiga areas of eastern Siberia and interior Alaska-Yukon where the mean annual temperature reaches down to −10 °C (14 °F), [11] [12] and the lowest reliably recorded temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were recorded in the taiga of northeastern Russia. Taiga has a subarctic climate with very large temperature range between ...
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
Paanajärvi National Park is located in the Karelia Region of northern Europe, along the Finnish–Russian border. It protects 1,043.71 square kilometres (402.98 sq mi) of pristine Scandinavian and Russian Taiga ecoregion forest habitats, lakes, and rivers. [34] Lake Pleshcheyevo
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 ...
This vast ecoregion is located in the heart of Siberia, stretching over 20° of latitude and 50° of longitude [1] (52° to 72° N, and 80° to 130° E). The climate in the East Siberian taiga is subarctic (the trees growing there are coniferous and deciduous) and displays high continentality, with extremes ranging from 40 °C (104 °F) to −65 °C (−85 °F) and possibly lower.
Paanajärvi National Park is located in the Maanselka hills of Karelia Region, along the Finnish–Russian border, northern Europe. It protects 1,043.71 square kilometres (402.98 sq mi) of pristine Scandinavian and Russian Taiga ecoregion forest habitats, lakes, and rivers. Nuorunen, the highest point of Karelia, is located in the park area. [1]
The wildlife of Russia inhabits terrain that extends across 12 time zones and from the tundra region in the far north to the Caucasus Mountains and prairies in the south, including temperate forests which cover 70% of the country. Russia's forests comprise 22% of the forest in the world [1] as well as 33% of all temperate forest. [2]