Table 4.1a. Relative standard errors (%) of area of forest and non-forest land by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.
Terrestrial ecozone Forest land Non-forest land
Other
wooded land
Other land with tree cover Other land
Taiga Plains 1.4 4.9 53.0 2.3
Taiga Shield 1.2 3.2 96.3 1.1
Boreal Shield 0.5 2.7 14.4 2.0
Atlantic Maritime 1.0 7.7 19.6 6.0
Mixedwood Plains 5.5 13.7 23.5 4.0
Boreal Plains 1.4 4.6 6.9 3.1
Prairies 9.2 16.1 6.7 0.6
Taiga Cordillera 4.6 8.3 0.0 1.8
Boreal Cordillera 2.4 6.4 67.0 2.7
Pacific Maritime 3.0 15.1 32.1 4.6
Montane Cordillera 1.3 9.2 17.8 3.7
Hudson Plains 2.9 3.0 39.7 2.0
Canada 0.4 1.5 4.6 0.6
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.