from LatinBoreas"north wind," from GreekBoreas, name of the god of the north wind, which is of unknown origin, perhaps related to words in Sanskrit (giri-) and Balto-Slavic (Lithuaniangirė, Old Church Slavonicgora) for "mountain" (also "forest") as if "those living beyond the mounta...
What types of birds live in the boreal forest? Fun fact about birds in the boreal forest: many have acquired seemingly strange common names. This is often because they were named by observers far from their usual habitat. Palm Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Connecticut Warbler, and Tennessee Warbler...
BOREAL FOREST OR TAIGA Stefanny Wilches Background of the Taiga Background of the Taiga Biome Biome • Taiga is a biome of the needle leaf forest. • Living in the taiga is cold and lonely. • Coldness and food shortages make things really difficult, mostly in the winter. • Some ...
After the fire, the N content was reduced in forest soil, but the rel- ative abundances for genes involved in N fixation (nifH) were not significantly impacted by fire12. On the other hand, Yeager et al.42 found the number of dominant nifH sequence types was greater in fire-impacted ...
In the present paper, we introduce a high-resolution spatiotemporal point cloud time series, acquired using a LiDAR sensor mounted 30 metres above ground on a flux observation tower monitoring a boreal forest. The dataset comprises a 18-month long (April
The boreal forest of Canada is home to several hundred thousands Aboriginal people who have been using medicinal plants in traditional health care systems for thousands of years. This knowledge, transmitted by oral tradition from generation to generation, has been eroding in recent decades due to ra...
Lac Lili (unofficial name) is located in the boreal forest of western Quebec, Canada, and was chosen for its shallowness (z(max) = 1.40 m) to assess if chironomid assemblages in the sediments could be used to reconstruct Holocene temperature fluctuations quantitatively. Inferred temperatures ...
Over Boreal regions, monoterpenes emitted from the forest are the main precursors for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation and the primary driver of the growth of new aerosol particles to climatically important cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Autoxidation of monoterpenes leads to rapid formation ...
North America - Boreal Forest, Wildlife, Ecosystems: One of the greatest sweeps of forest in the world, the boreal forest (or taiga) extends in a vast and virtually unbroken sheet of green eastward from the Aleutian Islands through Alaska and northern Ca
In RCP 2.6, the burned area appears to remain relatively consistent over time, with a slight increase in burned area (forest and non-forest) over the next 70+ years. In contrast, we see a noticeable uptick in burned area in the three other RCP scenarios, with overall increases being the...