Table 1C.1. Annual change in 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 8.78 11.54 20.32 -18.08 -0.38 -18.45 - 1.86
Taiga Shield 17.75 126.95 144.70 -152.94 10.71 -142.24 - 2.46
Boreal Shield 18.57 -59.14 -40.57 27.52 17.10 44.62 - 4.05
Atlantic Maritime 24.87 -53.91 -29.04 27.56 3.78 31.33 - 2.29
Mixedwood Plains -0.40 -115.75 -116.14 113.25 2.55 115.80 - -0.34
Boreal Plains 173.86 -60.79 113.07 -113.84 2.26 -111.58 - 1.49
Prairies 73.90 -845.09 -771.19 724.53 45.74 770.27 - -0.92
Taiga Cordillera -14.55 23.02 8.47 -7.81 1.90 -5.92 - 2.55
Boreal Cordillera -48.99 108.80 59.80 -58.16 -1.35 -59.51 - 0.29
Pacific Maritime 93.69 1.27 94.96 -84.34 -2.20 -86.54 - 8.42
Montane Cordillera 78.39 -6.12 72.28 -69.23 -4.23 -73.46 - -1.19
Hudson Plains -66.03 73.13 7.09 -1.54 -6.29 -7.83 - -0.74
Canada 359.84 -796.10 -436.26 386.91 69.58 456.49 - 20.24
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data, where plots with strong indicators of artificial change are removed. Artificial change between successive plot measurements can be caused by using different image sources, incorporating vintage baseline inventories, and updating photo-interpretation techniques (Version 3.1, November 2025) (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).