Table 19.1. Total above-ground carbon (million tonnes) by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Above-ground carbon
Taiga Plains 1 433.45
Taiga Shield 1 266.54
Boreal Shield 5 216.10
Atlantic Maritime 665.04
Mixedwood Plains 172.37
Boreal Plains 1 978.40
Prairies 297.98
Taiga Cordillera 263.87
Boreal Cordillera 722.89
Pacific Maritime 1 475.58
Montane Cordillera 2 544.47
Hudson Plains 316.57
Canada 16 353.27
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.