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Earth's biggest land biome, basically one long green shrug across the top of the planet.
means The circumpolar belt of cold-hardy coniferous forest — mostly spruce, pine, fir, and larch — that stretches across the far north of North America, Europe, and Asia, just south of the tundra.
from From 'boreal,' meaning 'northern,' which traces to Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind. Latin borrowed him as 'borealis,' and English pulled the adjective in to describe anything of the cold north — auroras get called 'borealis' for the same reason this forest belt does.
- share of land
- covers about a third of all forest on Earth
- carbon vault
- stores more carbon than the tropics, mostly in soil
- fire dependent
- many trees need fire to release their seeds
- low diversity
- few species dominate, unlike crowded tropical rainforests