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[2] [1] Insects account for nearly 70 percent of documented animal species in Canada. [2] More than 300 species are found exclusively in Canada. [5] There are 20 major ecosystems – ecozones – in Canada: 15 terrestrial and 5 marine. [6] Canada's major biomes are the tundra, boreal forest, grassland, and temperate deciduous forest.
The Alberta–British Columbia foothills forests are a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of Western Canada, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system. [2] This ecoregion borders Canada's taiga and contains a mix of subarctic forest and temperate forest species as a result.
The terrestrial ecoregions of Canada are all within the Nearctic realm, which includes most of North America. The Nearctic, together with Eurasia's Palearctic realm, constitutes the Holarctic realm of the Northern Hemisphere. [1] British Columbia is the most biodiverse province with 18 ecoregions across 4 biomes.
The fauna of Canada consist of approximately 200 mammal species, over 460 native bird species, 43 amphibian species, 43 reptile species, and 1,200 fish species. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The biology survey of Canada cites that there are approximately 55,000 species of insects and 11,000 species of mites and spiders.
Pages in category "Lists of landforms of Canada" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Canada.There are approximately 200 mammal species in Canada. [1] Its large territorial size consist of fifteen terrestrial and five marine ecozones, ranging from oceanic coasts, to mountains to plains to urban housing, mean that Canada can harbour a great variety of species, including nearly half of the known cetaceans. [2]
An overview of the flora and fauna of this distinctive region is available in The Natural Treasures of Carolinian Canada. [10] A few of the many examples of southern species found here include the hooded warbler, king rail, prothonotary warbler, blue-gray gnatcatcher, American badger, opossum, and eastern spiny softshell turtle.
Volcanoes of Canada by province or territory (11 C) ... Landforms of Newfoundland and Labrador (11 C, 7 P) Landforms of the Northwest Territories (7 C, 7 P)