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Siberian Taiga

Boreal Forest and Taiga

The East Siberian taiga is one of the largest biogeographic regions on Earth, a boreal forest and taiga ecoregion covering roughly 3.9 million square kilometers of eastern Russia. Several distinct named ecoregions cover the wider Siberian taiga, east, west and northeast, so Siberian Taiga as commonly used spans more territory than any single one of them. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Biogeographic Realm
Palearctic 1
Area (sq km)
3,900,000 1
Connections

Demonstrates

Wildfire, Natural Phenomena
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

Hosts

Amur Leopard, Species
Source World Wildlife Fund
Gray Wolf, Species

The cited source names the former Soviet Union's territory broadly, which includes Siberia, rather than the taiga by name specifically; the gray wolf's Eurasian range is well documented as extending across Siberia's taiga.

Source Eurasian Wolf (Wikipedia)
Whooping Crane, Species
Source Whooping Crane (Wikipedia)

In Biome

Boreal Forest, Biomes
Source East Siberian Taiga (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Russia, found in there.
Sources
1. East Siberian Taiga (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • lead section
    The East Siberian taiga ecoregion, in the taiga and boreal forests biome, is a very large biogeographic region in eastern Russia.
  • Biogeographic realm: palearctic (derived from location stated in entity description)
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Eurasian Wolf (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHosts: Gray Wolf, Range - Decline
Quote, Hosts: Gray Wolf, Range - Decline
The grey wolf's range in the Soviet Union encompassed nearly the entire territory of the country, being absent only on the Solovetsky Islands, Franz-Josef Land, Severnaya Zemlya, and the Karagin, Commander, and Shantar Islands.
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World Wildlife Fund
World Wildlife FundHosts: Amur LeopardView the Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Demonstrates: WildfireView the Source
Whooping Crane (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHosts: Whooping Crane, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 279939, target E266742
Quote, Hosts: Whooping Crane, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 279939, target E266742
By the mid-20th century, the muskeg of the taiga in Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada, and the surrounding area had become the last remnant of the former nesting habitat of the Whooping Crane Su
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