List of ecoregions in Canada (WWF)
List of WWF ecoregions in Canada.
A listing of Canadian ecoregions developed by WWF-Canada and the international World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund).
The ecoregions are within the Nearctic ecozone of the New World, which is part of the Holarctic ecozone of the Northern Hemisphere.
Forests
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Eastern forest-boreal transition
- Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
- Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
- Lac Saint-Jean and Saguenay valley forests
- New England-Acadian forests
- Western Great Lakes forests
Temperate coniferous
- Alberta Mountain forests
- Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
- British Columbia mainland coastal forests
- Cascade Mountains leeward forests
- Central British Columbia mountain forests
- Central Pacific coastal forests
- Eastern Cascades forests
- Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
- North Central Rockies forests
- Northern Pacific coastal forests
- Northern transitional alpine forests
- Okanogan dry forests
- Puget lowland forests
- Queen Charlotte Islands
- Ta'an Forest
Boreal/taiga
- Central Canadian Shield forests
- Eastern Canadian forests
- Eastern Canadian Shield taiga
- Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga
- Mid-Continental Canadian forests
- Midwestern Canadian Shield forests
- Muskwa-Slave Lake forests
- Newfoundland Highland forests
- Northern Canadian Shield taiga
- Northern Cordillera forests
- Northwest Territories taiga
- South Avalon-Burin oceanic barrens
- Southern Hudson Bay taiga
- Yukon Interior dry forests
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
- Canadian aspen forests and parklands
- Northern mixed grasslands
- Northern short grasslands
- Northern tall grasslands
Tundra
- Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra
- Arctic coastal tundra
- Arctic foothills tundra
- Baffin coastal tundra
- Brooks-British Range tundra
- Davis Highlands tundra
- High Arctic tundra
- Interior Yukon-Alaska alpine tundra
- Low Arctic tundra
- Middle Arctic tundra
- Ogilvie-MacKenzie alpine tundra
- Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra
- Torngat Mountain tundra
See also
References
- Ricketts, Taylor H; Eric Dinerstein; David M. Olson; Colby J. Loucks; et al. (1999). Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press; Washington, DC.