Table 3C.1a. Relative standard errors (%) for annual change in area of non-vegetated land by landscape position and terrestrial ecozones in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Alpine Upland Wetland Other1 Total
Taiga Plains 46.50 18.59 45.80 - 16.15
Taiga Shield 99.99 8.69 33.09 - 8.61
Boreal Shield - 26.03 35.31 - 22.69
Atlantic Maritime - 24.41 62.16 - 24.16
Mixedwood Plains - 10.66 91.09 - 10.65
Boreal Plains - 13.58 36.78 - 13.02
Prairies - 4.69 26.66 - 4.66
Taiga Cordillera 21.94 23.97 58.80 - 16.24
Boreal Cordillera 28.26 199.36 130.76 - 32.26
Pacific Maritime 14.49 42.00 77.55 - 14.03
Montane Cordillera 11.83 16.82 55.08 - 9.68
Hudson Plains - 33.82 86.56 - 33.18
Canada 8.21 3.69 16.50 - 3.34
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.