Table 17.1a. Relative standard errors (%) of total above-ground biomass on forest land by forest type, age class and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Forest type Age (years)
1-20 21-40 41-60 61-80 81-100 101-120 121-140 141-160 161-180 181-200 201+ Other1
Taiga Plains Treed Mixedwood 50.8 34.9 14.6 15.6 5.2 20.0 22.5 29.1 53.6 100.0 74.9 0.0
Treed Coniferous 54.4 50.9 17.8 10.8 2.1 12.6 14.6 20.7 25.3 71.1 41.1 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 46.0 50.7 11.7 7.4 18.3 23.6 29.8 57.1 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Non-treed 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.2
Taiga Shield Treed Mixedwood 59.5 100.0 100.0 20.5 13.1 5.8 56.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Coniferous 46.7 59.6 77.6 6.3 4.7 2.7 3.5 58.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 71.0 58.4 44.1 37.7 8.0 18.5 94.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Non-treed 0.0 100.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0
Boreal Shield Treed Mixedwood 5.4 5.2 4.1 3.0 3.3 7.7 12.5 21.6 43.7 71.6 66.0 0.0
Treed Coniferous 4.9 4.6 4.1 3.2 2.3 3.1 6.7 9.3 20.3 37.9 51.8 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 7.4 8.7 5.7 4.9 5.8 11.0 15.5 26.9 46.5 100.0 100.0 0.0
Non-treed 64.0 51.5 46.1 55.9 40.0 46.5 100.0 0.0 56.5 0.0 0.0 3.9
Atlantic Maritime Treed Mixedwood 6.8 6.9 4.7 6.4 10.9 27.3 58.6 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Coniferous 9.4 7.4 5.2 7.0 9.5 13.7 35.6 74.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 7.7 10.8 7.9 10.7 13.4 30.9 94.1 69.9 0.0 98.4 100.0 0.0
Non-treed 51.6 99.9 75.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.7
Mixedwood Plains Treed Mixedwood 19.7 14.4 11.2 22.5 30.3 46.2 62.7 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Coniferous 15.8 16.1 16.9 22.0 35.5 52.8 94.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 12.3 8.3 9.0 10.1 18.2 27.9 46.1 71.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Non-treed 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.7
Boreal Plains Treed Mixedwood 19.2 15.2 8.3 9.2 8.6 10.0 13.1 19.4 37.9 80.9 79.9 0.0
Treed Coniferous 15.9 12.1 7.2 5.9 5.8 6.5 8.0 12.9 18.1 27.6 38.6 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 13.0 10.3 6.2 6.7 8.7 10.4 17.5 35.9 58.2 100.0 0.0 0.0
Non-treed 71.1 77.0 94.4 87.6 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.3
Prairies Treed Mixedwood 0.0 100.2 61.8 81.6 47.4 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Coniferous 0.0 0.0 87.8 39.6 100.0 93.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 95.5 98.5 21.3 13.5 15.2 70.9 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Non-treed 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 41.0
Taiga Cordillera Treed Mixedwood 100.0 68.6 59.7 70.1 87.6 12.5 100.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Coniferous 100.0 25.4 24.7 30.7 22.6 5.5 40.8 82.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 100.0 58.0 86.4 15.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Boreal Cordillera Treed Mixedwood 39.9 29.8 39.7 16.1 23.9 21.2 26.5 32.6 42.8 0.0 40.3 0.0
Treed Coniferous 51.2 17.3 16.3 11.6 7.6 7.9 11.6 13.5 13.6 20.5 8.5 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 52.7 17.2 53.3 19.2 36.3 34.4 78.2 78.5 79.4 0.0 74.8 0.0
Non-treed 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 35.4
Pacific Maritime Treed Mixedwood 62.0 28.1 30.7 22.8 35.6 31.0 60.5 45.9 66.8 100.0 61.6 0.0
Treed Coniferous 25.7 15.8 15.5 16.2 17.4 15.6 22.5 20.4 18.7 19.3 4.8 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 70.6 35.6 24.8 31.4 34.1 51.0 42.7 86.5 62.0 100.0 96.6 0.0
Non-treed 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.8
Montane Cordillera Treed Mixedwood 37.5 41.5 22.3 18.3 18.5 18.3 16.4 22.0 31.1 38.3 30.6 0.0
Treed Coniferous 20.2 14.2 11.7 7.5 6.3 5.9 5.4 6.0 6.8 8.4 5.0 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 80.7 33.6 29.9 20.4 19.1 17.3 23.0 27.9 53.7 54.1 97.3 0.0
Non-treed 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.6
Hudson Plains Treed Mixedwood 0.0 100.4 32.7 60.6 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Coniferous 50.7 70.0 59.8 36.3 9.9 6.1 44.1 85.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 100.4 0.0 0.0 54.3 0.0 41.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Non-treed 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.7
Canada Treed Mixedwood 4.2 3.9 2.9 2.5 2.5 4.6 7.3 10.6 22.1 46.1 25.7 0.0
Treed Coniferous 4.0 3.7 3.0 2.4 1.4 1.8 2.6 4.3 5.3 7.1 3.3 0.0
Treed Broadleaf 4.8 5.1 3.4 3.1 3.9 6.7 10.7 20.4 30.3 44.2 45.6 0.0
Non-treed 37.6 49.4 42.5 55.3 40.0 44.7 100.0 0.0 56.5 0.0 0.0 2.6
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, revised 2006 baseline (Version 3, December 2013) (http://nfi.nfis.org)
Note: The Arctic ecozones (Arctic Cordillera, Northern Arctic, Southern Arctic), and the Taiga Plains and Hudson Plains ecozones located in Nunavut, are not inventoried. These non-inventoried areas total 262,189.89 thousand ha.
1 Missing or unknown age class.