Iceland

     

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Iceland

 

 

On March 14, 2010 the Eastern Native Tree Society and Western Native Tree Society switched from discussion lists on Google Groups to a new discussion list in a Bulletin Board format at: http://www.ents-bbs.org/index.php  Posts made since the inception of the BBS on March 14, 2010 will be sorted and archived on the BBS. Click on the link to go to the equivalent section on the new BBS. This website will continue to serve as a front end for the ENTS and WNTS groups. It will continue to serve as a repository of older posts, and will serve as the host site for special projects and features that are not well suited for a BBS format. Please visit the BBS for the latest information and trip reports.

 

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Iceland:  Forests and Trees


Tree Picture Image Gallery by Harri Elíasson
http://icelandiscool.com/treepicture/  Iceland has much beautiful scenery and landscape. In autumn the vivid colours of the vegetation, flowers and plants clash with the grey and brown of stone and lava. This gallery contains a few photos taken on an autumn day of flowers, trees, birds, mountain, lava and whatever else caught the eye of the photographer. Enjoy and feel free to use the photos as wallpaper. (Most images are 800x600).

 

Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0602_full.html Iceland, the second largest island in the North-Atlantic Ocean (c. 103,000 square kilometers), is entirely volcanic and composed of basaltic rock. Weather is usually cold and wet, and blanket bogs are common. The surface is only partly covered with vegetation, the rest being bare rock, snow, and glaciers, which cover over eleven percent to the ecoregion. 

 

Iceland Vegetation http://www.iceland.is/country-and-nature/nature/Vegetation/ Only about one-quarter of the total area of Iceland has a continuous plant cover, due mainly to the unfavourable climate, volcanic activity, glacier movements and overgrazing. About 470 species of native vascular plants are to be found, exceptionally low figure, and about half are thought to be glacial survivors from the Ice Age. The most common vegetation consists of various low-growing shrubs, especially heather, crowberry, bog whortleberry, bearberry, willow and dwarf birch.

 

Natural History of Iceland http://www.iceland-nh.net/ This site deals with the birds of Iceland, the plants of Iceland and the landscape of Iceland. It offers photographic guides to characteristic floral elements of Iceland, the birdlife of Iceland as well as landscape images of this remarkable island.