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Table 18 summarizes area and volume in each ecozone. The table and Figure 47 show:
• The Boreal Shield has the largest area of forest and other wooded land (almost 36% of
the total) and supports 37% of the total volume;
• The Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield both have markedly larger percentages of forest and
other wooded land compared to the wood volume they support (8.9% area compared to
4.6% volume, and 12% area compared to 2.3% volume, respectively);
• The Pacific Maritime ecozone contains only 3% of Canada’s area of forest and other
wooded land, but accounts for 12.2% of the wood volume;
• The Montane Cordillera has 8.9% of the forest and other wooded land area, but supports
19.8% of Canada’s wood volume.
Other analyses can be performed; this example serves to illustrate the capability.
Percent
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Arctic ecozones
Taiga Plains
Taiga Shield
Boreal Shield
Atlantic Maritime
Mixedwood Plains
Boreal Plains
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Prairies
Taiga Cordillera
Boreal Cordillera
Pacific Maritime
Volume
Biomass
Area
Montane Cordillera
Hudson Plains
Figure 47. Area, volume, and biomass percentages of forest and other wooded land by terrestrial ecozone