Table 3.1. Area (1000 ha) of non-vegetated land by landscape position and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Alpine Upland Wetland Other1 Total
Taiga Plains 121.60 2 865.69 143.22 - 3 130.51
Taiga Shield 16.43 9 825.52 14.25 - 9 856.20
Boreal Shield 2.64 1 946.58 91.92 - 2 041.13
Atlantic Maritime - 690.98 5.94 - 696.92
Mixedwood Plains - 1 629.77 0.78 - 1 630.55
Boreal Plains - 2 854.22 120.47 - 2 974.69
Prairies - 8 593.75 68.34 - 8 662.08
Taiga Cordillera 1 009.03 6 350.82 27.92 - 7 387.77
Boreal Cordillera 9 274.23 2 063.53 57.81 - 11 395.57
Pacific Maritime 5 809.61 775.76 22.01 - 6 607.38
Montane Cordillera 5 088.67 1 649.29 15.86 - 6 753.82
Hudson Plains - 233.00 9.43 - 242.43
Canada 21 322.22 39 478.92 577.94 - 61 379.08
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.