Biomes/natural Vegetation: Needle-leaf Evergreen Forests
Needle-leaf evergreen forests are largely comprised of straight trunked, conical shaped trees that have comparatively shorter branches with narrow and small needle like leaves. These forests are composed of conifers predominantly. Where the needle-leaf forests are evergreen, they provide continuous deep shade to the ground, therefore, the lower layers of vegetation are either absent or sparse (Veregin 2005). Only a thick carpet of mosses can be found below the needle-leaf biome. There are very few species that can be found, however the large tracts of the vegetation have one or two species. According to the World Vegetation Map, this ...