boreal
/ˈbɔːrɪəl
/adjective
1 Ecology Relating to or characteristic of the climatic zone south of the Arctic, especially the cold temperate region dominated by taiga and forests of birch, poplar, and conifers: northern boreal forest...
- Moose and caribou share the region's tundra and boreal forests with arctic foxes, wolves, lynx, and black bears.
- The Siberian northern boreal forests, called Taiga, where the fires were burning are mainly spruce and fir trees.
- The temperate and boreal forests along with the arctic tundra of these four provinces are extremely fragile.
1.1 (Boreal) Botany Relating to or denoting a phytogeographical kingdom comprising the arctic and temperate regions of Eurasia and North America.This, following the current views on molecular evolution, may have been a separate benthic-planktic transition in Boreal latitudes; Compactogerina is currently only known from Northern Russia and the south of the UK....
- Eriophorum spp. are abundant perennial graminoids in the Arctic tundra and boreal peatlands.
2 (Boreal) Geology Relating to or denoting the second climatic stage of the postglacial period in northern Europe, between the Preboreal and Atlantic stages (about 9,000 to 7,500 years ago), marked by a warm, dry climate.The alleged bureaucratic ubiquity of the Teutonic world is not really being treated as conditional on the truth of a contingent claim about those hardy Boreal nomads of the Arctic....
- It is apparently absent from Triassic faunas of northeastern Asia and the Boreal region, and until now has not been reported from the Triassic of the Americas.
- There is some disagreement about stratigraphic nomenclature and correlations between the Boreal and Tethyan faunal realms across the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary.
Origin
Late Middle English: from late Latin borealis, from Latin Boreas, denoting the god of the north wind, from Greek.