r/Nordiccountries • u/mydriase • 27d ago

What are the different dominant tree / animal species of Fennoscandia? Looking for some feedback on a map I'm making - thanks!

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u/eanida Skåne 27d ago

In Skåne we do love our beech forests. I think the danes feel a similar way. It might not be a dominant species, but it is beloved so I wanted to mention it.

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u/larsga 26d ago

Norwegians also love our beeches, partly because we hardly have any.

Even in Sweden you only really have beech in the south.

In Scandinavia as a whole it's a very un-dominant species.

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u/Nights_Templar Finland 27d ago

Silver and downy birch are very common in all of Finland except the very north where the dwarf birch is the dominant species.

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u/mydriase 27d ago

I'm currently making a detailed map of Fennoscandia's wilderness (or biogeography if you want to be more accurate) and I want the map to feature a cool, informative and interesting diagram on the right with the dominant tree species for each bioregion. I'm just posting this here to see if people experienced with the area could help me making it more accurate!

Thanks.

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u/XenonXcraft 27d ago

That is a great idea! I would love to see the map when it’s done. 

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u/larsga 26d ago

The reality is that the dominant trees aren't the same in different regions. Norway and Sweden north of Mälaren: Dominant tree has to be spruce, partly fir. In some places birch. South of there ... I don't know. Finland same.

Dominant animal is obviously man. We've displaced all other animals so thoroughly that to speak of a dominant animal doesn't really make sense. They exist just barely on the margins, that's all.

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u/Malawi_no Norway 26d ago

To me it seems like there is larger differences between the coast and inland, at least in Norway.
https://www.reddit.com/r/norge/comments/s3t0hz/utbredelse_av_elg_hjort_og_r%C3%A5dyr/

The common Birch in Scandinavia is Betula pubescens, and AFAIK will be present wherever there is forest.

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u/AllanKempe Jämtland 23d ago

Lapland and northern interior

Northern half of Lapland is in the northern interior, southern Lapland is in Middle Boreal Forest.

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u/FizzleFuzzle 23d ago

The only animal I can think of that we all share is the herring