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To many Canadians, ecozone names will conjure up distinct images of the country
- for example the Prairies, Boreal, Taiga, Arctic and Cordilleran
ecozones bring to mind particular features such as mountains, plains,
treed and treeless regions, distinct from one another in one or
more of their characteristic features.
Canada is comprised of 20 ecozones. Fifteen ecozones make up terrestrial
Canada and five make up the marine waters bordering Canada. Ecozones
are useful for general national reporting and for placing Canada’s
ecosystem diversity in a North American or global context. Canada’s
15 terrestrial ecozones can be subdivided into 53 ecoprovinces.
Ecoprovinces are useful units at an intermediate scale for national
and regional planning and reporting purposes. Finally, Canada’s
53 terrestrial ecoprovinces can be further broken down into 194
ecoregions. Ecoregions are a useful ecosystem scale for national,
provincial and regional planning and reporting purposes. Most maps
in this module present the information at the ecoregion level of
detail.
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