Squirrels are Omnivores so they eat meat and plants. They eat nuts, leafs, roots, seeds and other plants like small insects. Snow Show Hares are mostly white hares that are forest dwellers that prefer to be comforted by surrounding bushes.

Herbivorous animals either eat smaller plant life, such as shrubs, or the seeds from trees. Large predatory mammals, such as bears, lynxes and wolves — and in Russia, the Siberian tiger — prey on the taiga’s deer and rodent populations.

The taiga is characterized predominantly by a limited number of conifer species—i.e., pine (Pinus), spruce (Picea), larch (Larix), fir (Abies)—and to a lesser degree by some deciduous genera such as birch (Betula) and poplar (Populus). These trees reach the highest latitudes of any trees on Earth.

Beside above, what do foxes eat in the taiga? Red foxes are solitary hunters who feed on rodents, rabbits, birds, and other small game—but their diet can be as flexible as their home habitat. Foxes will eat fruit and vegetables, fish, frogs, and even worms.

The abiotic factors of the taiga biome include temperature, sunlight, soil, air, water etc. The taiga climate is dominated by cold arctic air. During the summer, the taiga receives more light and thus leads to hotter days.

The Taiga Biome is the largest land-based biome and extends across Europe, Asia and North America. It is also known as the Coniferous or Boreal Forest. It is named after Boreas the Greek god of the North Wind. It represents 29% of the world’s forest cover.

The taiga is well adapted to development following natural disturbances, which include fire, floods, snow breakage, and insect outbreaks.

The taiga is characterized by a cold, harsh climate, low rate of precipitation (snow and rain), and short growing season. Long, severe winters last up to 6 months, with average temperatures below freezing. Summers are short, lasting maybe 50 to 100 days without frost. Winters in the taiga are long and cold.

The boreal forest shelters more than 85 species of mammals, including some of the largest and most majestic—wood bison, elk, moose, woodland caribou, grizzly and black bears, and wolves—and smaller species, such as beavers, snowshoe hares, Canada lynx, red squirrels, lemmings, and voles.

The boreal forest is home to more than 85 species of mammals (Kavanagh 2006). In Alberta, widespread mammal species in the boreal forest include the black bear, moose, deer, red squirrel, snowshoe hare, southern red-backed vole, cinereous shrew, least chipmunk, deer mouse, and ermine.