CONIFEROUS FOREST

by IKRAM HEJJAJ KHALLOUKI.

CARACTERISTICS

Long and very cold winters. Abundant precipitation as snow. Coniferous forests predominate (pines, spruces…) There are mammals such as lynx, moose ,deer ,bear…

MAP OF THE CONIFEROUS FOREST

Coniferous forests stretch cold in northern Europe, Asia and North America, and the tip of South America, between the territories occupied by

temperate grasslands and tundra of the polar region.

CLIMATE• The temperatures of the coniferous forests between 10

° C and 20 º C in summer and -15 ° C and 5 º C in winter.

• Coniferous forests often cover mountainsides. Trees are tall and narrow, so snow will slide off the branches without breaking them.

FLORA• Some of the species that inhabit coniferous forests

are cold spruces, firs, larches, pines, birches, mosses and ferns as well. Usually found tall trees.

• • •Pine/Pinus pinea

• • Abeto/ • Spruce/Abies pinsapo boiss

•Pícea/Picea abies

• Tsuga/Tsuga canadensis

FLORA

• Fitzroya cupressoides

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• Abies alba Mill

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• Betula pendula• Fitzroya cupressoides

SEQUOIA• The Coniferous forest, located along the

northern California coast, contains the largest life-form on Earth! The giant Sequoia trees are also the longest-lived life form on Earth.

FAUNA• Animals best adapted to the vegetation of these forests are

beavers, squirrels, porcupines, skunks, moose, marmots, hares, lynx, deer, rabbits, black bears and wolves.

• •Beaver/Castor canadenses

• • •Skunk/mephitis

•Bear/ursus

Reindeer o Rangifer tarandus

FAUNA

• • •Deer/Hippocamelus antisiensis

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• •rabbitt/Lepus

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• • •Moose/ Platycerioum• • •

• •Wolf/Canis lupus