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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.
The Eastern Canadian Boreal Forests is a boreal ecoregion in Eastern Canada, defined by the One Earth ecoregion categorization system. [3] Setting
A 2021 paper had confirmed that the boreal forests are much more strongly affected by climate change than the other forest types in Canada and projected that most of the eastern Canadian boreal forests would reach a tipping point around 2080 under the RCP 8.5 scenario which represents the largest potential increase in anthropogenic emissions. [70]
Canada’s nearly 700-million-acre boreal forest, which is about 28 percent of the world’s boreal zone, stores carbon, purifies air and water and acts as a climate regulator.
Boreal Forest Region - This the largest forest region in Canada. It is located in the north and contains about one third of the world's circumpolar boreal forests. Coast Forest Region - Located on the west coast, this region almost entirely comprises coniferous trees including the Douglas-fir, Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and western red cedar.
The Mid-Canada Boreal Plains Forests is a taiga ecoregion of Western Canada, designated by One Earth.It was previously defined as the Mid-Continental Canadian Forests by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system, before it was modified by One Earth, the successor to WWF.
Eastern Canadian forests: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Quebec: Boreal forests/taiga: Eastern Canadian Shield taiga: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec: Boreal forests/taiga: Interior Alaska–Yukon lowland taiga: Yukon: Boreal forests/taiga: Mid-Continental Canadian forests: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories ...
Great Bear Lake (North Slavey: Sahtú; French: Grand lac de l'Ours) is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada.It is the largest lake entirely in Canada (Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada–US border), the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world. [4]