Table 2C.1. Annual change in area (1000 ha) of vegetated land by landscape position and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Treed Non-treed Other1 Total
Upland Wetland Total Alpine Upland Wetland Total
Taiga Plains -86.21 94.99 8.78 7.59 -47.84 51.79 11.54 - 1.86
Taiga Shield -42.14 59.89 17.75 1.34 -6.55 132.16 126.95 - 2.46
Boreal Shield -526.83 545.40 18.57 - -158.75 99.61 -59.14 - 4.05
Atlantic Maritime -12.24 37.11 24.87 - -55.02 1.11 -53.91 - 2.29
Mixedwood Plains -5.39 5.00 -0.40 - -110.07 -5.68 -115.75 - -0.34
Boreal Plains 226.34 -52.48 173.86 - 1.43 -62.22 -60.79 - 1.49
Prairies 63.95 9.94 73.90 - -923.17 78.08 -845.09 - -0.92
Taiga Cordillera -18.77 4.23 -14.55 58.99 -48.95 12.97 23.02 - 2.55
Boreal Cordillera -54.14 5.15 -48.99 40.38 60.48 7.94 108.80 - 0.29
Pacific Maritime 94.30 -0.61 93.69 15.34 -9.01 -5.07 1.27 - 8.42
Montane Cordillera 84.05 -5.66 78.39 26.90 -20.50 -12.52 -6.12 - -1.19
Hudson Plains -36.10 -29.93 -66.03 - 10.76 62.37 73.13 - -0.74
Canada -313.19 673.03 359.84 150.54 -1 307.18 360.54 -796.10 - 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 landscape positions.