Winters are quite cold with steady snow cover and average temperatures below freezing. The area gets very short, mild and humid summers of about 50 to 100 days, with the average temperature in July being about 10 to 13 degrees Celsius (50-55 Fahrenheit). The Taiga typically experiences cold, harsh weather with winters lasting up to six months, a short growing season, and little precipitation which occurs only in summer. Image credit: Atomic Roderick/Shutterstock Content: Map depicting the Taiga regions of the world. Taiga forests belong to vast expanses of northern parts of Europe, Asia, and North America, along with the southern Rocky Mountains and Sierra alpine regions of the western US, the Japanese islands and the Pacific coast of North America. Russian for "marshy pine forest," the Taiga covers about 50 million acres or 17% of the Earth's total land, which makes it the planet's largest biome.Īlso called boreal forests, the Taiga is divided into northern, central, and southern regions. The Taiga comprises open woodlands with trees spaced widely apart, as well as dense, shaded forests. The Taiga, an area of coniferous forests in the northern temperate zones, is created by boreal species of spruce, fir, larch, pine, cedar with a small mixture of hardwoods.
The Taiga experiences ongoing environmental threats from human activity, such as deforestation, hydroelectric development, and climate change.Dark coniferous is the most common type of forest found in the Taiga, including spruce, fir, pine and Siberian cedar trees.The Taiga, an area of coniferous forests of the northern temperate zones, covers 17% of the Earth's total land, which makes it the planet's largest biome.
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