Table 3.1b. Confidence interval (1000 ha) of area of non-vegetated land by landscape position and terrestrial ecozones in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Alpine Upland Wetland Other1 Total
Taiga Plains ±104.04 ±360.55 ±100.37 - ±388.45
Taiga Shield ±32.29 ±547.29 ±9.02 - ±548.32
Boreal Shield ±5.18 ±279.52 ±47.64 - ±283.60
Atlantic Maritime - ±169.36 ±6.37 - ±169.48
Mixedwood Plains - ±258.88 ±0.96 - ±258.89
Boreal Plains - ±478.59 ±68.94 - ±483.53
Prairies - ±740.97 ±35.81 - ±741.83
Taiga Cordillera ±317.98 ±633.03 ±28.07 - ±708.96
Boreal Cordillera ±888.93 ±472.88 ±48.75 - ±1 008.06
Pacific Maritime ±731.01 ±212.19 ±35.83 - ±762.03
Montane Cordillera ±704.97 ±342.85 ±13.69 - ±784.03
Hudson Plains - ±83.02 ±14.70 - ±84.31
Canada ±1 390.88 ±1 474.87 ±152.81 - ±2 033.02
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.