Fast-growing trees don't always store more carbon. In tough environments, slow but resilient species store more.
To answer this important question, an international consortium of scientists, coordinated by INRAE and Bordeaux Sciences Agro ...
3. Taiga/Boreal Forest: Spans across 17 million sq km in Scandinavia, Canada, and Russia. It is the world's largest forest biome and composed mainly of pine, spruce trees 4. Valdivian Temperate ...
One type of coniferous forest, the northern boreal forest, is found in 50° to 60°N latitudes. Another type, temperate coniferous forests, grows in lower latitudes of North America, Europe, and Asia, ...
Their zonal behavior occurs essentially in the arctic and boreal biomes of the northern hemisphere where they reach their greatest extensions. In the rest of the planet, they are usually located ...
The cold temperate biome (biome 8 of Ziegler, 1990) is characterized nowadays by boreal conifer forests and taigas (widely spaced trees with a ground cover of mosses and lichens). Today it is missing ...
A new study has introduced a powerful tool for analyzing satellite imagery of boreal forests (also known as 'Taiga' in North America), offering unprecedented insights into the health and dynamics of ...