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Boreal Forests of the Circumpolar World

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The boreal forest accounts for about one-third of all global forest resources and is found in seven of the eight Arctic countries. The boreal biome, also known as the taiga, lies south of the Arctic Circle and runs through Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States, and Canada (out of the eight Arctic countries), as well as Japan, Mongolia, and Scotland, making it one of the largest biomes in the world.

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    For the purposes of this article, Iceland and Finland are included.

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    Russian Government, retrieved from: http://government.ru/en/department/245/.

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Hesseln, H. (2019). Boreal Forests of the Circumpolar World. In: Finger, M., Heininen, L. (eds) The GlobalArctic Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91995-9_7

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