Table 2.1a. Relative standard errors (%) 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 1.62 4.34 1.54 41.06 3.01 3.90 2.38 - 1.28
Taiga Shield 1.28 3.82 1.22 97.32 1.29 2.29 1.13 - 0.73
Boreal Shield 0.68 1.93 0.65 100.00 2.69 2.04 1.70 - 0.62
Atlantic Maritime 1.14 8.92 1.15 - 5.63 9.12 4.82 - 1.27
Mixedwood Plains 5.67 13.26 5.27 - 4.91 12.15 4.68 - 2.97
Boreal Plains 1.44 3.01 1.33 - 4.29 4.00 3.05 - 1.25
Prairies 5.93 14.07 5.68 - 1.32 5.64 1.29 - 1.32
Taiga Cordillera 4.56 24.80 4.48 13.42 2.86 14.36 2.94 - 2.23
Boreal Cordillera 2.51 11.78 2.45 10.87 3.40 9.14 3.12 - 1.81
Pacific Maritime 3.02 40.82 3.01 19.20 7.49 19.46 6.79 - 2.62
Montane Cordillera 1.32 17.77 1.32 14.13 4.04 10.23 3.78 - 1.38
Hudson Plains 3.21 2.25 1.89 - 5.53 2.15 2.05 - 1.34
Canada 0.46 1.23 0.43 6.92 0.78 1.11 0.64 - 0.35
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data< (Version 3, November 2023) (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.