Near Strezhevoy, Russia Photograph by Children's Strezhevoy Internet Club   Palaearctic Boreal Forests/Taiga   644,900 square miles (1,670,400 square kilometers) -- about the size of Alaska Relatively Stable/Intact

· Location and General Description
· Biodiversity Features
· Current Status
· Threats
· Ecoregion Justification
· References
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Location and General Description

Biodiversity Features

Current Status

Types and Severity of Threats

Justification of Ecoregion Delineation

This is the vast coniferous forest ecosystem that extends from the Urals to the Yenisei River. In general, the ecoregion boundaries correspond to Kurnaev’s (1990) taiga in the Western Siberian province from the Ural Mountains to the Yenisei River. However, Kurnaev’s taiga east of the Yenisei River was attached to the East Siberian taiga ecoregion since the Yenisei is considered a significant biogeographic boundary in most sources. The Ural Mountains boundary was taken from Europe.

References

Kurnaev, S. 1990. Forest regionalization of the USSR (1:16,000,000) Moscow: Dept. of Geodesy and Cartography

For more general information on this ecoregion, go to the WildWorld version of this description.