Description
The Scandinavian and Russian taiga consists of coniferous forests dominated by Pinus sylvestris (in drier locations), often with an understory of Juniperus communis, Picea abies and Picea obovata and a significant admixture of Betula pubescens and Betula pendula. Larix sibirica is characteristic of the eastern part of the ecoregion.
It is bordered by the ecoregions of Scandinavian coastal conifer forests (west), Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands (northwest and upwards in the higlands and mountains), Kola Peninsula tundra (North), Northwest Russian-Novaya Zemlya tundra (northeast), Urals montane tundra and taiga (east) and Sarmatic mixed forests (south), by the Baltic Sea and White Sea. Geobotanically, it belongs to the Northeastern European floristic province of the Circumboreal Region of the Holarctic Kingdom.
| Palearctic Boreal forests/taiga | |
|---|---|
| East Siberian taiga | Russia |
| Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra | Iceland |
| Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests | Russia |
| Kamchatka-Kurile taiga | Russia |
| Northeast Siberian taiguhh | Russia |
| Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga | Russia |
| Sakhalin Island taiga | Russia |
| Scandinavian and Russian taiga | Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
| Trans-Baikal conifer forests | Mongolia, Russia |
| Urals montane tundra and taiga | Russia |
| West Siberian taiga | Russia |
| Puszcza Romnicka | Poland, Russia |
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