The taiga is the largest biome in the world consisting of boreal coniferous forests located in the northern hemisphere. It has a continental climate that is extremely cold, especially in winter, with average temperatures below 0°C. Precipitation is relatively high, falling as snow in winter and rain in summer. Common fauna includes herbivores like reindeer and moose, rodents like beavers and squirrels, and carnivores such as wolves and bears. The natural vegetation is predominantly coniferous trees like pines and firs along with flowering plants in spring.

1. TAIGA
By: José Manuel Blancat Blanco,
Carlos Vergara Benjumea, Javier
García Carrasco and Jesús
Vázquez Caraballo.

2. INDEX
● Main caracteristics......................................................pg 1.
● Localization and climate.............................................pg 2.
● Temperature................................................................pg 3.
● Precipitation and rainfall.............................................pg 4.
● Fauna..........................................................................pg 5.
● Vegetation or flora....................................................pg 12.
● Biography.................................................................pg 14.

3. MAIN CARACTERISTICS
● It´s form by coniferous forest and is the biggest
woodland of the world.
● It´s can be call boreal forest in the southern zone
and taiga in the northern zone.
Generally high humidity lead to the formation of
podzol type soils, acid soils that favor the
formation of peatlands.
The taiga, characterized by their low tree line, and
consisting of coniferous forests are biomes typical
cold weather in the northern hemisphere.

4. LOCALIZATION AND CLIMATE
It´s locate in the north hemisphere .
This natural landscape has a continental
climate that is extremely cold and wet.
Winters are short and cold, but often
more stringent than in the tundra and
the ground is covered with snow.

5. Climogram of the taiga

6. Climogram of Vladivostok

7. TEMPERATURE
In the taiga, the average temperature is 19 ° C in summer and
-30 ° C in winter with big differences in the temperature
between summer and winter (in Siberia are normally
reached temperatures below 40 º C in winter and higher
than 15 º C in summer).
The summer period is rather cool, with an average
temperature of 19 º C, which favors the melting of frozen
surfaces and hinders the normal movement of some
animals.

8. PRECIPITATIONS AND RAINFALL
The precipitation in the taiga is relatively high, and it falls
as snow in winter and rain in summer. Annual rainfall in
the taiga is between 250-750 mm per year in some areas
with a minimum of 160 and in other maximum of 1000
mm; moreover, the water remains frozen many
months.The temperatures are low throughout the year
depending on each month can go a little bit or lower.
Which is not very abundant although low temperatures
produce low evaporation. The average temperature is
below 0 to 5°C.

9. FAUNA
● The life of the animals is very hard in winters, birds
emigrate to warm latitudes while other animals
hibernate.
● The most characteristics animals are:
Hervivorous animals, like reindeers,caribous or mooses.
Rodents animals, like beavers, squirells or hares.
Carnivorous animals, like wolves, foxes, gluttons and
bears.
Birds, like owls, barn owls, grouses, hazel hen and
crossbills.

10. HERVIVOROUS
CARIBOU
MOOSE
RAINDEER

11. RODENTS
SQUIRELL
BEAVER
HARE

12. CARNIVOROUS
BEAR
WOLF
GLUTTON

13. BARN OWL
BIRDS
HAZEL HEN
OWL
CROSSBILL
GROUSE

14. VEGETATION OR FLORA
● The changing seasons called coniferous forests.
When spring come alive coniferous forest is the
natural vegetation of much of the warm zones of
Europe and North America but also exist in the
limited warm lands in the southern hemisphere.
Some trees exceed the 40m of altitude, the most
representative vegetation of the Taiga are :
● Trees, like pines, elms, oaks, poplars, firs, ash,...
● Plants, like honeysuckle, primroses and hyacinths.

15. TREES
ASH
PINES
FIR ELM

16. PLANTS
PRIMROSES
HONEYSUCLE
HYACINTHS