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Ribbon forest

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112: 17: 60: 27:, Russia. The dark east-west strips are examples of ribbon forest, forested with pines and dotted with salt-rich lakes. The image shows a distance of a little more than 300 km (190 mi) from left to right, and the forested strips are nearly that length. 46:
in largely deforested areas, to allow wildlife to move between the remaining pockets of forest. But in North America and Russia it refers to two different natural patterns of forest growth caused by features of the local soil and
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that are created when deep snow and wind forces trees to grow only in bands, about twenty feet wide and thirty feet apart, that have enough shelter. Areas that have this habitat type include the southern
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In Russia, the term "Ribbon forest" or "Tape forest" refers to a more large-scale phenomenon of long, narrow bands of forest stretching from northeast to southwest in
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Kharuk, Viacheslav I.; Im, Sergei T.; Dvinskaya, Maria L.; Ranson, Kenneth J.; Petrov, Il’ya A. (2017).
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In North America, the term "Ribbon forest" is used to describe a unique habitat type found near the
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are forests that occurs in long thin bands. In many places this may be the result of
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has Colorado's highest amount of snowfall, averaging 25 to 30 feet per winter.
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Index


Ob Plateau
Altai Krai
deforestation
habitat corridor
climate history

Mount Zirkel Wilderness
tree line
subalpine zone
Rocky Mountains
subalpine forest
meadow
Mount Zirkel Wilderness
Medicine Bow Mountains
Buffalo Pass
Park Range

habitat corridor
ru:Ленточный бор
Siberia
Pinus sibirica
last ice age
"The Ribbon Forest on Buffalo Pass"
Archived
"Environmentalists celebrate rare win in Siberia, with Kremlin backing"
Archived
"Tree wave migration across an elevation gradient in the Altai Mountains, Siberia"
Bibcode
2017JMouS..14..442K

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