Biome
Boreal Forests/Taiga
The Boreal Forests/Taiga biome gathers 26 ecoregions in Plotwright's worldwide roster. The vast northern forest belt of spruce, fir, pine, and larch, defined by long, severe winters and short growing seasons. Often underlain by permafrost and wetlands, the taiga forms one of the world’s largest terrestrial carbon stores.
Alaska Peninsula montane taigaCentral Canadian Shield forestsCook Inlet taigaCopper Plateau taigaEast Siberian taigaEastern Canadian forestsEastern Canadian Shield taigaIceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundraInterior Alaska-Yukon lowland taigaKamchatka taigaKamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forestsMid-Canada Boreal Plains forestsMidwest Canadian Shield forestsMuskwa-Slave Lake taigaNortheast Siberian taigaNorthern Canadian Shield taigaNorthern Cordillera forestsNorthwest Territories taigaOkhotsk-Manchurian taigaSakhalin Island taigaScandinavian and Russian taigaSouthern Hudson Bay taigaTrans-Baikal conifer forestsUrals montane forest and taigaWatson Highlands taigaWest Siberian taiga