What are the primary threats to Taigas?
What are the insect threats?
- Human destruction
- Insect infestation
- Removal of trees, causing destruction of soil/erosion, and habitat destruction
- Removal of biomass, taking nutrients from soil
- Decrease in naturally occurring forest fires (returning nutrients to soil)
What are the insect threats?
- Forest-destroying plagues caused by insects such as the spruce bark beetle, the mountain pine beetle, the aspen-leaf miner, the larch sawfly, the spruce budworm, and the spruce coneworm.