Taiga - Coniferous, Boreal, Evergreen

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Scotch pine is the most widely distributed pine species in the world, growing from northern Scotland to the Russian Pacific shore. The relatively humid and productive taiga of northern Europe and south-central Siberia is dominated by this species. Forest management has greatly favoured this species in Scandinavia and Finland. It is a thick-barked species and easily survives light ground fires, often reaching ages of 350 to 400 years and some individuals being older than 700 years. European aspen and Siberian spruce are essentially transcontinental in distribution as well. The species composition of Eurasian taiga is different east of central Siberia ...(100 of 6417 words)

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