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4.2 Terrestrial Ecozones of Canada<br />

The National Ecological Framework for Canada (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995)<br />

describes an ecozone as “an area of the earth’s surface representative of large and very generalized<br />

ecological units characterized by interactive and adjusting abiotic and biotic factors.” Ecoregions are<br />

subdivisions of an ecozone, and are “characterized by distinctive regional ecological factors. Including<br />

climatic, physiography, vegetation, soil, water, fauna and land use.” The report describes each of Canada’s<br />

ecozone and ecoregion in terms of those factors. The boundaries of the ecozones and ecoregions have<br />

been digitized and combined with CanFI<strong>2001</strong> summary-unit boundaries (Figure 46), so that conditions<br />

within them can be quantified.<br />

Figure 46. Terrestrial ecozones<br />

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