Taiga : nf In geography, the taiga is a forest de conifers, interspersed with bogs, which borders the tundra en America northern and in Asia.
The taiga, Russian тайга from Altai (*) tayγa, also called forest boreal (or forest Hudsonian) is one of main biomes land.
Strongly linked to climate sub-Arctic, it consists of a training vegetable de type forestry traveled by a wide network lacustrine resulting from fluvioglacial erosion.
(*) The Altaic languages or Trans-Eurasian languages are a set of languages spoken in Eurasia, from Turkey and Moldavia to East Asia, passing through Central Asia, Siberia and Russian Far East.
Sa vegetation to feature to be the most wide continuity woody for the planète and alone occupies 10% of the land emerged.
She covers the majority of territories interiors de l 'Alaska (United States of America) Of the Canada, Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden), of the Finland, North part de l 'Scotland (Highlands), of the Russia, theIceland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, North West for the China and north of the island of Hokkaido (Japan).
It shelters an avifauna strongly diversified and serves as a refuge for many cash animals otherwise threatened such as the wolf, thebear Brown, grizzly bear, kodiak bear, lynx, arctic fox, castor, the glutton (or wolverine), the bison of the woods, the reindeer ( caribou) or themomentum ( moose).