Table 3.1a. Relative standard errors (%) of area of non-vegetated land by landscape position and terrestrial ecozones in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Alpine Upland Wetland Other1
Taiga Plains 43.5 6.4 35.7 0.0
Taiga Shield 100.0 2.8 32.6 0.0
Boreal Shield 100.0 6.9 26.6 0.0
Atlantic Maritime 0.0 12.6 43.4 0.0
Mixedwood Plains 0.0 8.1 63.2 0.0
Boreal Plains 0.0 8.5 28.3 0.0
Prairies 0.0 4.4 26.7 0.0
Taiga Cordillera 16.0 5.0 51.3 0.0
Boreal Cordillera 4.9 11.7 42.9 0.0
Pacific Maritime 6.4 14.0 82.8 0.0
Montane Cordillera 7.0 10.6 43.7 0.0
Hudson Plains 0.0 17.9 79.3 0.0
Canada 3.3 1.9 13.3 0.0
Source: Canada's National Forest Inventory, combined remeasured (2007-2017) and projected (2006-2017 with NFI projection system) data (Version 2, November 2022) (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.