Table 1.1b. Confidence interval (1000 ha) of area of land cover by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Vegetated Non-vegetated Other1 Total2
Treed Non-treed Total Land Water Total
Taiga Plains ±949.81 ±745.22 ±1 207.27 ±390.01 ±861.09 ±945.30 - ±1 533.32
Taiga Shield ±1 171.95 ±1 104.16 ±1 610.17 ±547.60 ±1 010.30 ±1 149.16 - ±1 978.19
Boreal Shield ±1 449.82 ±1 067.34 ±1 800.33 ±291.98 ±1 225.57 ±1 259.87 - ±2 197.37
Atlantic Maritime ±329.89 ±262.40 ±421.53 ±169.63 ±137.26 ±218.21 - ±474.66
Mixedwood Plains ±359.85 ±557.52 ±663.57 ±258.88 ±688.05 ±735.14 - ±990.33
Boreal Plains ±1 060.43 ±876.51 ±1 375.78 ±488.41 ±758.30 ±901.98 - ±1 645.10
Prairies ±333.67 ±823.83 ±888.84 ±743.13 ±337.71 ±816.26 - ±1 206.78
Taiga Cordillera ±584.83 ±593.07 ±832.92 ±628.87 ±107.32 ±637.96 - ±1 049.17
Boreal Cordillera ±1 006.89 ±809.80 ±1 292.13 ±982.95 ±243.43 ±1 012.65 - ±1 641.66
Pacific Maritime ±689.81 ±285.72 ±746.64 ±731.38 ±157.47 ±748.14 - ±1 056.97
Montane Cordillera ±868.93 ±550.12 ±1 028.44 ±765.68 ±330.30 ±833.89 - ±1 324.03
Hudson Plains ±615.49 ±573.84 ±841.49 ±84.70 ±271.06 ±283.99 - ±888.12
Canada ±2 969.40 ±2 541.94 ±3 908.81 ±1 978.34 ±2 173.40 ±2 938.96 - ±4 890.43
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 3.1, October 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).