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Wildlife of Sweden. Located in the Scandinavian Peninsula, Sweden is a mountainous country dominated by lakes and forests. Its habitats include mountain heath, montane forests, tundra, taiga, beech forests, rivers, lakes, bogs, brackish, marine coasts, and cultivated land. The climate of Sweden is mild for a country at this latitude, largely ...
Forests of Sweden. Sweden is covered by 68% forest. [ 1] In southern Sweden, human interventions started to have a significant impact on broadleaved forests around 2000 years ago, where the first evidence of extensive agriculture has been found. [ 2] Recent studies describe a long-term process of borealization in south-central Sweden starting ...
List of superlative trees in Sweden. Oldest non-clonal pine, at least 747 years old. Formerly it was thought a pine in Muddus National Park was the oldest. Stoutest larch, 5.19 m. Stoutest and oldest juniper in Sweden, 2.8 m and about 600 years old. Tallest tree in Sweden, 49.5 m.
Comital families. Bernadotte of Wisborg (Luxembourgish title awarded to various members of the House of Bernadotte) Crapon de Caprona. Fouché d'Otrante ( Napoleonic nobility) von der Groeben (German nobility) von Hallwyl (Swiss nobility) Joussineau de Tourdonnet (French nobility) Lagergren (Papal/Italian nobility) Landberg.
Animal husbandry came increasingly into focus later in the century. Selected foreign breeds were purchased and made available in breeding stations (1702–1864). All farms in Sweden were taxed based on their productive capacity, which caused a rise in manorial organisation. This was a social and economic system that allowed the nobility to ...
The Eurasian blackbird is the national bird of Sweden. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Sweden. The avifauna of Sweden included a total of 554 confirmed species as of June 2023, according to BirdLife Sveriges (BLS) with supplemental additions from Avibase. [1] Of them, one has been introduced by humans, one is extinct, and three ...
Skogskyrkogården came about following an international competition in 1915 for the design of a new cemetery in Enskede in the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden. The entry called "Tallum" by the young architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz was selected.
List of mammals of Sweden. Reindeer. There are 84 mammal species (with two uncertain) recorded in Sweden according to the IUCN Red List. Two are endangered, one is vulnerable as well now extinct, and four are near threatened. The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for ...