Biome Taiga
Trace Martel
Biome Description
The Taiga is located between 50 degrees latitude north and the Arctic circle.
Tempeture
The low tempeture in the winter is -65*f the high winter is 30*f. The summer low is 20*f the high is 70*f.
Weather and Climate
The Taiga gets 30 inches of rain per year.
Mountains
The Rocky Mountains are part of the Taiga.
Body's of water
Some body's of water in the Taiga are lakes, streams, and little ponds.
Plants
The trees in the Taiga include paper birch, willows, trembling aspen, tamarack, green alder, white spruce, balsam poplar, lodgepole pine, jack pine, dwarf birch, black spruce, and balsam fir.
Carnivores
The carnivores in Taiga include the black bear, lynx, and wolf are the only large carnivores to be found here; smaller carnivores are the red fox, ermine, and marten.
Herbivores
The large herbivores include woodland caribou, wood bison, moose, and barren ground caribou, while snow-show hare, red squirrel, arctic ground squirrel are some of the smaller herbivores.
Wood bison
Herbivore
Moose
Herbivore
Snow-show hare
Herbivore
Red squirrel
Herbivore
Arctic ground squirrel
Herbivore
Woodland caribou
Herbivore
Siberian(Amur) Tiger - The Undisputed King of Taiga.