Abstract: The boreal element in Europe is a northeastern element centred on the great conifer formation, the taiga, of northern Russia and Siberia. Boreal species form a series of equiformal progressive areas in the sense of Hultán (1937), from species with a very restricted distribution in northern Russia and perhaps penetrating into northern Finland to species with a much wider distribution, reaching the northern parts of the British Isles and the higher mountains of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balkans. It is typically a forest element. Only a few species extend north of the arctic forest-limit or much above the altitudinal timber-line.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-03-26
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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