Taiga

By: Eduardo Guerra

 What is it like?

Living in the taiga is cold and lonely. Coldness and food shortages make
things very difficult, mostly in the winter. Some of the animals in the
taiga hibernate in the winter, some fly south if they can, while some
just cooperate with the environment, which is very difficult.
The winters in the taiga are very cold with only snowfall.

The summers are warm, rainy, and humid.

Where is it located?

The taiga is located throughout the high northern

latitudes, between the tundra, and the temperate
forest, from about 50N to 70N.
 What geographic characteristics
help define it?
The winter temperature range is -54 to -1 C (-65 to
30 F).
The summer gets as low as -7 C (20 F) and the
hightest can be 21 C (70 F).
The total precipitation in a year is 12 - 33 in.
 Examples of ecosystems

Wood Buffalo National

Park of Canada is the country's largest national
park and one of the largest in the world
Established in 1922 to protect the last
remaining herds of bison in northern Canada.
Today, it protects Canada's Northern Boreal
Plains.
Examples of ecosystems

Losiny Ostrov National Park

First National park established in Russia
Located in Moscow Oblast
The total area of the park is 28,717acres
A large area of this park was cut during World War II
 Valuable characteristics
Fires will burn away the trees and let sunlight reach
the ground.
New plants will grow and provide food for animals
that once could not live there because there were
only evergreen trees
It does have millions of insects in the summertime.
Birds migrate there every year to nest and feed.
It offers us large amounts of wood and
Oxygen
Flora & Fauna
Some native Plants are:
Balsam Fir
Commonly used for the christmas tree
They grow ro height of 40 to 80ft
Little tolerance for fire
there seeds are usually burnt during a forest fire
Major food for the moose during the winter
 Black Spruce

Commonly found in this biome

Wood is usually used to build houses
Also christmas tree
Can grow at most 25 meters long
Many birds eat the plants seeds
American Black Bear:
Tertiary consumer
Black bears coat is perfect for cold weather
many layers of fur
Hibernates to avoid finding food in the
winter
Help kill overpopulated animals and the elderly
 The Red Fox
Can grow up to be 2 and 15 inches tall
Adapts well to new habitats
commonly Hunts rabbit hares
nocturnal, lives in a burrow at day time
Travels alone
Human Influence
Deforestation
Cutting to many trees and city growth
Acid Rain
Pollution from burning fossil fuels is making the
rain more acidic
Sulfur dioxide fuses with water
more susceptible to diseases
 Endangered Animals
Iberian Lynx
Critically endangered
Farmers and law enforcements believed they
killed livestock
Przewalskis Horse
Rare and endangered type of wild horses
Wild Population in Mongolia near Extinct
Was declared Extinct for 30yrs.
Conservation of the Biome
Afforestation
Be more careful where we deforest
Replant trees in deforested areas
Scrubbers
scrubbers lower the amount of pollution being
released into the atmo.
References
http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/taiga.html

http://priynspecies.weebly.com/endangered-species-list.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przewalski's_horse

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga.htm

http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/woodbuffalo/index.aspx