Forests play a huge role in zhzni person.In recent years, their number in the world decreased by almost half.A man cuts down trees for their needs, regardless of the fact that destroys the forest and all its inhabitants.
most extensive forest area of the planet and the richest source of oxygen - this is the taiga.It stretches to the south of the tundra over large areas of Siberia and the Far East and stretches almost across the Northern Hemisphere.Taiga has in Finland and Canada.It takes more than a third of the world's forests.
Someone Taiga might seem monotonous - some conifers, birch occur occasionally.In the vast space can not meet the housing and roads.Only trees and swamps.Sometimes this forest looks gloomy and dark because coniferous trees overshadow spreading light.Therefore, in the lower tier is almost nothing grows except mosses and lichens.
taiga plants are not very diverse.In the southern part of the zone preserved many relict species, but some of them because of the person is on the verge of extinction.For their conservation reserve created Cedar inch on the shore of the Amur Bay and the Ussuri Nature Reserve.
Nature taiga forests in southern Siberia is unusual and beautiful.They are somewhat similar to the jungle because of the fact that taiga plants are located on several levels.Even vines in the forest there.It Actinidia.It is also called taiga grapes, and it is a relict plant.Yet here it meets lemongrass, which has a very strong taste and an unusual used in medicine.In this area lives and another plant that is considered worldwide the best healer of many diseases - a ginseng.Animals, too, are stored in the territory zapovednikkov.This Amur leopard, Siberian tiger, mandarin duck, Amur runner and many others.
taiga soils are not very rich in humus, and often at a depth frozen.Winter in these parts lasts a very long time, and can survive only conifers, mainly pine, fir and spruce, on the ground grow mosses and lichens, which often form a thick carpet.Undergrowth in the forest is almost there.Much rain falls to wash away nutrients from the upper layer.These soils are called podzolic their light color.
Siberian taiga supplies about 90% of all stocks of coniferous forest.This area exceeds even the rainforests.In its territory a lot of different bogs and rivers and lakes.Plants taiga fed northerners.It is rich in berries and edible mushrooms, there is found a lot of small and large animals, rivers and lakes are rich in fish.
elk, deer, wolverines, beavers, bears and wolves - are the most common inhabitants of the taiga.Many also fur-bearing animals (mink, sable, marten, ermine), which exterminated because of their valuable fur.
most valuable plant found only in the taiga - the Siberian cedar.Because it is made of wood furniture, pencils and musical instruments, nuts and juice is used in medicine, very helpful and cedar oil.Other common plants of the taiga - a pine, larch and fir.They are also used in traditional medicine man.
If people continue unchecked cutting down the forest, soon there will be such places, which oxygenates the entire planet.
