Table 3.1. Area (1000 ha) of non-vegetated land by landscape position and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Alpine Upland Wetland Other1 Total
Taiga Plains 0.00 3 836.02 0.00 0.00 3 836.02
Taiga Shield 0.00 11 970.14 0.00 0.00 11 970.14
Boreal Shield 0.00 2 084.19 3.47 0.00 2 087.66
Atlantic Maritime 0.00 402.02 2.81 0.00 404.83
Mixedwood Plains 0.00 385.15 2.49 0.00 387.64
Boreal Plains 0.00 4 252.24 27.09 0.00 4 279.33
Prairies 0.00 657.21 0.00 0.00 657.21
Taiga Cordillera 19.70 7 617.72 11.49 0.00 7 648.91
Boreal Cordillera 9 955.87 2 187.54 54.20 0.00 12 197.60
Pacific Maritime 6 742.37 673.18 35.05 0.00 7 450.60
Montane Cordillera 6 798.85 547.06 7.66 0.00 7 353.57
Hudson Plains 0.00 312.54 0.00 0.00 312.54
Canada 23 516.79 34 925.01 144.25 0.00 58 586.06
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 landscape positions.