Table 2.1b. Confidence interval (1000 ha) for area 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 ±952.77 ±558.15 ±1 104.22 ±67.58 ±611.38 ±507.11 ±797.20 - ±1 657.47
Taiga Shield ±1 130.63 ±280.22 ±1 164.84 ±28.16 ±1 019.52 ±507.92 ±1 139.38 - ±1 994.09
Boreal Shield ±1 439.25 ±831.13 ±1 661.99 ±3.50 ±862.06 ±630.36 ±1 067.95 - ±2 342.88
Atlantic Maritime ±347.93 ±110.03 ±364.91 - ±241.62 ±115.44 ±267.78 - ±502.47
Mixedwood Plains ±334.55 ±90.60 ±346.60 - ±549.25 ±82.81 ±555.45 - ±984.43
Boreal Plains ±994.14 ±795.91 ±1 273.50 - ±804.67 ±469.55 ±931.65 - ±1 816.20
Prairies ±326.71 ±40.61 ±329.23 - ±813.83 ±177.74 ±833.02 - ±1 211.06
Taiga Cordillera ±571.19 ±100.00 ±579.88 ±387.61 ±585.70 ±162.62 ±720.92 - ±1 170.58
Boreal Cordillera ±972.48 ±217.46 ±996.50 ±351.73 ±756.13 ±166.12 ±850.31 - ±1 671.13
Pacific Maritime ±689.25 ±5.88 ±689.28 ±103.60 ±255.63 ±24.13 ±276.88 - ±1 075.76
Montane Cordillera ±865.51 ±40.52 ±866.46 ±211.63 ±498.37 ±58.73 ±544.62 - ±1 330.85
Hudson Plains ±521.51 ±470.85 ±702.62 - ±347.74 ±516.28 ±622.47 - ±980.68
Canada ±2 890.28 ±1 420.19 ±3 220.35 ±578.66 ±2 275.00 ±1 228.56 ±2 649.50 - ±5 123.73
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 landscape positions.