Table 19.1. Total above-ground carbon (million tonnes) by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Above-ground carbon
Taiga Plains 1 460.60
Taiga Shield 1 273.16
Boreal Shield 4 619.82
Atlantic Maritime 747.44
Mixedwood Plains 188.77
Boreal Plains 2 304.06
Prairies 214.47
Taiga Cordillera 267.10
Boreal Cordillera 863.17
Pacific Maritime 1 548.90
Montane Cordillera 2 514.14
Hudson Plains 289.56
Canada 16 291.19
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 2, November 2022) (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.