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A very productive rain-fed forest occurs along the British Columbia coast from Haida Gwaii and Stewart south to Metchosin on Vancouver Island. [15] It also extends inland along river valleys from coastal parts of Alaska, crossing into British Columbia as far north as the Chilkat River. [16] Western hemlock is a dominant climax species throughout.
There are three distinct types of vegetation on this coast: the forests of the coastal plain dominated by western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), western red cedar (Thuja plicata) and amabilis fir (Abies amabilis); mountain forest of mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), amabilis fir and yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis); and alpine tundra with sedge meadows and lichen-covered rocks.
Biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification (BEC) [1] [2] is an ecological classification framework used in British Columbia to define, describe, and map ecosystem-based units at various scales, from broad, ecologically-based climatic regions down to local ecosystems or sites.
British Columbia mainland coastal forests The Great Bear Rainforest [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a temperate rain forest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia , comprising 6.4 million hectares. [ 4 ] It is part of the larger Pacific temperate rainforest ecoregion , which is the largest coastal temperate rainforest in the world.
Early users of Esri technology in Canada include forestry giant J.D. Irving, Limited [6] and Oxford County, Ontario [7] Esri Canada helped design the County of Oxford’s pioneering GIS model in 1985, called the Land Related Information System (LRIS), which integrated information such as property and infrastructure data from various government ...
The dense and diverse forests make this zone the second most productive forest zone in British Columbia and Canada. Sub-Boreal ( Hemiboreal ) Spruce and Pine-Spruce Zones: The central interior of the province, consisting of the rolling lake-studded terrain of the Cariboo — the Fraser and Nechako Plateaus — is characterised by severe, snowy ...
Mid to high elevations throughout the ecoregion host forests of alpine fir, lodgepole pine, and Engelmann and white spruce. The highest elevations, which are found in the far northwest and southeast extremes of the ecoregion, host communities of low-lying arctic lupine , glacier lily , mountain heather , and mountain avens .
Carbon emissions from deforestation is an important issue to look at with the increasing problem of global warming.Currently, about 4% of B.C.′s total green house gas (GHG) yearly emissions are from deforestation, which is quite a low percentage compared to B.C.'s total GHG emissions, and works out to be about 6,200 hectares of forest land is converted to non-forest use per year. [4]