circumboreal
Around the north
Circumboreal describes plants, animals, or ecological zones distributed around the northern regions of the globe—across North America, Europe, and Asia in the boreal (subarctic) belt.
The species has a circumboreal distribution, found in coniferous forests from Scandinavia to Siberia to Canada.
The term emphasizes continuity across continents at similar latitudes.
Zone south of Arctic
- taigaSubarctic evergreen biome
- latitudeGeographic or personal freedom
- rangeExtent of variation
- biogeographyScience of species distribution
zoogeography · transcontinental · Arctic Circle · temperate · montane · alpine · endemic · disjunct
subarctic
Zone south of Arctic
biogeography · zoogeography · transcontinental · Arctic Circle · temperate · montane · alpine · endemic · disjunct · northern
biome
Major ecological community
- coniferousProducing woody cones
- taigaSubarctic evergreen biome
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
permafrost · spruce · pine · fir · birch · larch · willow · alder · lichens · mosses
Scandinavia
Nordic countries collectively
Greenland · Kamchatka · Yukon · Labrador · Finland · Norway · Sweden · Russia · Iceland · Hokkaido
circumborealtropical
Of hot, humid regions
equatorial · southern · austral · neotropical · subtropical
circumborealendemic
Native to one area
localized · restricted · regional · disjunct · cosmopolitan
northern lights, boreal, circumpolar, borealis, aurora borealis