Table 2.1. 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 29 863.16 6 571.31 36 434.47 83.64 10 436.58 6 666.01 17 186.24 0.00 53 620.70
Taiga Shield 44 874.58 3 728.57 48 603.15 14.72 40 208.24 11 266.91 51 489.87 0.00 100 093.02
Boreal Shield 108 109.10 21 610.02 129 719.12 1.78 16 092.85 15 788.69 31 883.33 0.00 161 602.44
Atlantic Maritime 15 478.80 629.12 16 107.92 0.00 2 186.20 648.06 2 834.26 0.00 18 942.17
Mixedwood Plains 3 001.00 347.63 3 348.63 0.00 5 689.13 346.70 6 035.84 0.00 9 384.47
Boreal Plains 35 112.61 13 349.85 48 462.45 0.00 9 591.05 6 085.10 15 676.14 0.00 64 138.59
Prairies 2 802.04 146.88 2 948.92 0.00 31 382.21 1 603.99 32 986.20 0.00 35 935.12
Taiga Cordillera 6 368.76 204.91 6 573.68 1 458.71 10 453.38 578.00 12 490.10 0.00 19 063.78
Boreal Cordillera 19 683.74 938.52 20 622.26 1 640.81 11 348.47 923.28 13 912.56 0.00 34 534.83
Pacific Maritime 11 583.94 7.42 11 591.35 277.72 1 746.25 61.76 2 085.74 0.00 13 677.09
Montane Cordillera 33 237.96 116.91 33 354.87 731.62 6 293.71 290.80 7 316.13 0.00 40 671.00
Hudson Plains 8 257.78 10 628.25 18 886.03 0.00 3 195.45 12 223.63 15 419.08 0.00 34 305.11
Canada 318 373.47 58 279.38 376 652.84 4 209.01 148 623.52 56 482.94 209 315.48 0.00 585 968.32
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.
1 Missing, unknown or other landscape positions.