The Taiga Biome (Boreal Forest) - Biomes #7

🌲🌲🌲 The Boreal Forest Biome, often referred by its original Russian name as simply the Taiga. It is a sea of coniferous trees, stretching unbroken from coast to coast in the far north of our world. In this video on biogeography, we explore the taiga, what it is exactly, reveal the climate influences that make it this way, and where in the world it is found. 🌲🌲🌲 🕐CHAPTERS🕖 👉0:00 Opening Montage 👉0:31 Introduction and Titles 👉1:31 What is the Taiga? 👉2:24 Evergreen and Seasonal Taiga 👉2:54 Relationship to the Subarctic Climate 👉3:47 Holdridge Lifezones Chart 👉4:35 Why do conifers dominate? 👉5:43 Composition of a Taiga Forest 👉6:36 Forest Fires 👉7:24 Lichen Woodland and Forest Tundra 👉8:06 Boreal Forest Tree Species 👉10:03 Taiga Fauna/Wildlife 👉10:30 Relationship to Global Climate 👉11:34 Outro 🌲🌲🌲 Only six tree families vie for contention here - four conifers (pine, larch, spruce, fir) and two deciduous species (birch and aspen), making it among the least biodiverse of all biomes. The taiga dominates Alaska, Canada and Northern Scandinavia. In Russia it dominates Siberia across thousands of miles, and that country contains more of this biome than the other countries combined. 🌲🌲🌲 Please also watch the accompanying Subarctic video for the full story:    • The Subarctic Climate - Secrets of World C...   - FURTHER READING 💻📚✏️ LONS08 - A new world natural vegetation map for global change studies - http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v80n2/a... Holdridge Life Zones - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/H... Additional charts, maps and images along with the narrative script - click here: 👉 https://geodiode.com/biomes/taiga [email protected]