Table 1.1. Area (1000 ha) of land cover by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Vegetated Non-vegetated Other1 Total2
Treed Non-treed Total Land Water Total
Taiga Plains 34 505.04 18 397.54 52 902.58 3 836.02 9 029.47 12 865.49 0.00 65 768.07
Taiga Shield 47 706.93 50 361.65 98 068.59 11 970.14 29 284.09 41 254.22 0.00 139 322.81
Boreal Shield 128 552.94 33 385.21 161 938.15 2 087.66 28 081.47 30 169.13 0.00 192 107.28
Atlantic Maritime 15 858.41 3 408.96 19 267.37 404.83 484.88 889.71 0.00 20 157.09
Mixedwood Plains 3 349.38 7 324.57 10 673.95 387.64 5 792.53 6 180.17 0.00 16 854.12
Boreal Plains 44 234.30 18 577.14 62 811.44 4 279.33 6 981.28 11 260.61 0.00 74 072.06
Prairies 2 083.08 42 356.87 44 439.95 657.21 1 562.05 2 219.26 0.00 46 659.21
Taiga Cordillera 6 453.10 12 355.43 18 808.53 7 648.91 247.71 7 896.62 0.00 26 705.15
Boreal Cordillera 19 004.06 14 731.65 33 735.71 12 197.60 1 147.55 13 345.16 0.00 47 080.86
Pacific Maritime 10 154.93 2 724.67 12 879.60 7 450.60 545.84 7 996.43 0.00 20 876.03
Montane Cordillera 30 392.50 9 711.32 40 103.82 7 353.57 1 521.03 8 874.59 0.00 48 978.42
Hudson Plains 19 815.20 14 322.63 34 137.83 312.54 2 747.19 3 059.74 0.00 37 197.57
Canada 362 109.86 227 657.64 589 767.51 58 586.06 87 425.09 146 011.15 0.00 735 778.65
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, unknown or other land covers.
2 The areas of the ecozones are based on the Atlas of Canada 1:1 000 000 scale base map reprojected to Albers Equal Area Conic projection (ESRI: 102001).