With more than a month still to go in Siberia's annual fire season, more than 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of Yakutia's swampy coniferous taiga has ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Although wildfire is the main natural disturbance factor driving changes in the North American boreal forest, understanding how the fire ...

For six months of the year Arctic Finland is a wonderland of lakes, snow and the taiga – winter forest – which yields some of the most striking shapes in nature. Dawn in the Riisitunturi National Park ...

YEKATERINBURG, February 4. /TASS/. The taiga forests in West Siberia are shifting towards the North Pole, scientists of the Tyumen State University and their Finnish colleagues say. The project’s ...

We surveyed the structure of ant communities in young taiga forests by pitfall trapping in southern Finland. The sampling sites were clearcut and planted with conifers 14-20 yr before the sampling.

The Siberian flying squirrel is considered an umbrella and indicator species. This means that protecting it could also benefit a host of other forest-dependent wildlife. The Siberian flying squirrel ...