Canada's Boreal Forest region is likely to a refuge for species
Canada's Boreal Forest alone holds about 12 percent of the world's land-based carbon reserves. It is home to a quarter of the world's wetlands, with millions of lakes—including some of the largest and most pristine on Earth—and the longest free-flowing rivers remaining in North America.
Data Fuels Canadian Boreal Forest Research As E&R
Download the North American boreal zone map [2.2 Mb] or the shapefiles The boreal forest is important to Canada and the planet Canada's boreal forest (270 million hectares) stores carbon, purifies the air and water, and regulates the climate.
Study area map of Canadian boreal ecozones (Boreal Cordillera (BC
The shapefiles that were developed as part of the study "The extent of the North American boreal zone" by Natural Resource Canada's Dr. J.P. Brandt are available for download. These spatial data are provided in a 21Mb ESRI shapefile. In order to view these data, you will need shapefile-compatible GIS software.
Location map of six subecozones in eastern Canada’s boreal forest and
Canadian forests play a primary role in the ecology,. The forested areas managed for timber production are mostly located in the Boreal Shield, Atlantic Maritime, Montane Cordillera and Pacific Maritime ecozones.. This map shows the forest fire ignition causes for fires greater than 200 hectares. The data represent a compilation of all.
Canada's boreal wetlands are key to fighting climate change report
Context 1. circumpolar boreal forest zone is the most extensive terrestrial biome in the world, accounting for 32% of the world's forest cover. The Canadian boreal forest region.
Canada's Boreal Forest in Comparison to Yellowstone National Park
At 1.3 billion acres, the Canadian Boreal Forest is one of the largest intact forest and wetland ecosystems remaining on earth. It is a major source of North America's freshwater and home to the some of the planet's largest populations of wolves, grizzly bears, and woodland caribou.
Fast Facts Canada’s Boreal Forest The Pew Charitable Trusts
Canada is home to the largest boreal forest in the world, a vast expanse of wilderness rich in biodiversity that stretches from coast to coast. But a major new study examining nearly a half.
The world's largest protected boreal forest has been created in Canada
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Boreal forest Map Canada secretmuseum
Canada will soon have the l argest protected boreal forest - an area twice the size of Belgium - on the planet. About 1.6 million hectares of land in the province of Alberta are being converted into new or expanded provincial parks. A 6.7m hectare conservation zone will now be protected and free from logging or oil and gas exploration.
Boreal Forests of Canada
Bordered to the north by treeless arctic tundra and to the south by temperate forest or grassland, the zone includes three ecologically distinct subzones: the northern boreal woodland, the main boreal forest and the southern boreal forest.
Spotlight What we know about Canada’s boreal forest Natural
The Boreal Region is a massive expanse of forests, wetlands, and waterways covering much of the Northern Hemisphere. In Canada, this vast region stretches for 5000 kilometres from Newfoundland and Labrador through the country's central regions and northwest to the Yukon.
Mapping Canada’s intact forests Canadian Geographic
Location and size The Canadian boreal forest is a very large bio-region that extends in length from the Yukon-Alaska border right across the country to Newfoundland and Labrador. It is over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in width (north to south) separating the arctic tundra region from the various landscapes of southern Canada.
New framework identifies climate change “refugia” in boreal forest
More than 30% of Canada's boreal has been allocated to some form of current or future development, confirming the need to conserve large portions of the boreal to create a balance in the boreal forest. Boreal Birds 325 North American bird species rely on the boreal forest for nesting or migratory stopover habitat.
Map of the boreal region and boreal forests of Canada (Power and Gillis
In this research, we use a predictive modeling approach to map forest structural attributes over the ~552 million ha boreal forest of Canada. For model calibration and independent validation we utilize airborne lidar-derived measurements of forest vertical structure (known as lidar plots) obtained in 2010 via a> 25,000 km transect-based.
Canada's Boreal Forest Boreal Songbird Initiative
Approximately 80 per cent of Canada's forested land is in the immense boreal forest region, which swings in an arc south from the Mackenzie River Delta and Alaskan border to northeast British Columbia, across northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, through Manitoba, Ontario and Québec, terminating in northern Newfoundland on the shores of the Labrado.
Boreal forest Natural Resources Canada
Canadian Forest Service researchers have used the most current science to map the North American part of the boreal zone. This map gives scientists, governments and others a common tool for discussing the boreal region. Download a printable version of the map as a PDF [2.2 Mb] or the shapefiles. 3.