|Game||Zoo Tycoon 2|
|Seasons||Long Cold Winter & Short Dry Summer|
Boreal Forest is a biome from Zoo Tycoon 2.
- The boreal forest biome, which consists of a great band of
|Game||Zoo Tycoon 2|
|Seasons||Long Cold Winter & Short Dry Summer|
Boreal Forest is a biome from Zoo Tycoon 2.
- The boreal forest biome, which consists of a great band of evergreen conifer forests, extends around the Northern Hemisphere in the subarctic latitudes. Within this zone, the growing season is brief and the winter is long and cold. These circumstances exclude most broadleaf deciduous trees, which require more time to regrow their leaves than the subarctic climate provides. Evergreen trees, on the other hand, are ready to resume photosynthesis whenever the air grows mild enough. Furthermore, the compact, cylindrical shape and waxy skin of the needlelike leaves retard moisture loss during the winter, when environmental water is unavailable because it is frozen.
- Compared with the forests of lower latitudes, the boreal forests - often called by their Russian name of taiga - are rather uniform in structure and species composition. Trees, often in dense stands of even age, dominate. Many assume a narrow, point