Taiga
Template: Biome Taiga is a biome characterized by a coniferous forest. Covering most of the interior of Canada, Alaska, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Scottish and Russian Highlands, as well as the northern interior of the mainland of the United States, northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan, the taiga is the largest biomass in the world. As the continent of North America and Asia was once connected by the Bering land bridge, some species of animals and plants could occupy both continents and scattered throughout the biomass. Other species are found only in certain areas, ie each genus is made up of different species, each occupying a different area of the taiga. The taiga forest is also overgrown with small leafy stubble trees such as birch, alder, willow, and aspen; mostly in protected areas from extremely low temperatures in winter. However, the larch tree has also been able to withstand the coolest winter in the northern hemisphere, in eastern Siberia. The southernmost region of the taiga is covered with oak trees, maple, elm and tilia scattered among coniferous trees.