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| Some bleak northern environments - just as some desert environments (see later lecture on deserts) - are artificially bleak. This Icelandic countryside - quite totally treeless - actually did have sparse forests of one species of tree when the Scandanavians first colonized it about a millenium ago. Such trees only survive today in gardens and graveyards (as is, interestingly, also the case in the margins of many of modern deserts). | ||
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