Copper Plateau taiga

Copper Plateau taiga
Lake Louise, Alaska from a distance
Map of the Copper Plateau taiga.
Ecology
RealmNearctic
BiomeBoreal forests/taiga
Borders
Geography
Area17,257 km2 (6,663 sq mi)
CountryUnited States
StateAlaska
Climate typeSubarctic (Dfc)
Conservation
Conservation statusRelatively stable/intact[1]
Protected5,195 km2 (30%)[2]

The Copper Plateau taiga is an ecoregion of North America, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, in the Taiga and Boreal forests, Biome, Alaska.

  1. ^ "Copper Plateau taiga". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
  2. ^ Dinerstein, Eric; Olson, David; et al. (June 2017). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) Supplemental material 2 table S1b.