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The Wonderful Birch. The Wonderful Birch ( Russian: Чудесная берёза) is a Finnish/Russian fairy tale. A variant on Cinderella, it is Aarne–Thompson folktale type 510A, the persecuted heroine. It makes use of shapeshifting motifs. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book .
Whooper swan, the national bird. Silver birch, the national tree. Lily of the valley, the national flower. The number of species living in Finland has been estimated to be at least 45,000. Known fauna consists of 27,000 species, flora of 4,500 species and fungi 7,500 species. The largest group is insects, over 20,000 identified species and an ...
Inje is located in the North of Gangwon Province. Inje County has been called multiple names throughout its history. It was first known as Jeojokhyeon in the Goguryeo Kingdom, then Heejaehyeon in the Silla Kingdom, and Inje in the Goryeo Dynasty. The area was then known as Youngsohyeon and once again later on became Inje in the Joseon Dynasty.
At still lower altitude is the adjacent montane birch zone with mountain downy birch (Betula pubescens); some stunted spruce and pine, and many lakes and bogs. This part is regarded as part of the north boreal (sparse taiga) vegetation zone; birch forming the treeline is very rare outside Scandinavia. At lower elevations the forests become ...
65.75°N 16.25°W. / 65.75; -16.25. The Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0602) covers the island of Iceland in the North Atlantic. The island is volcanic in origin with basaltic soils, and the cold northerly climate prevents any significant crop agriculture. Because the island is young and isolated from larger ...
The Scandinavian and Russian taiga is an ecoregion within the taiga and boreal forests biome as defined by the WWF classification (ecoregion PA0608). [1] It is situated in Northern Europe between tundra in the north and temperate mixed forests in the south and occupies about 2,156,900 km 2 (832,800 sq mi) in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the northern part of European Russia, being the largest ...
Inyo National Forest [ 22] 238,000 acres (96,000 ha) [ 22] Sierra Nevada forests – Great Basin montane forests. Lodgepole Pine, Jeffrey Pine, Great Basin Bristlecone Pine [ 22] California. Klamath National Forest [ 22] 168,000 acres (68,000 ha) [ 22] Klamath-Siskiyou forests.
The temperate rainforests of the Russian Far East are within the Russian federal subjects Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai and contains the Sikhote-Alin mountain range. Found within the Russian Federation, this area is one of the most productive and diverse forests in the world and also contains one of the highest endangered species densities ...