World Location
This Global ecoregion is made up of 3 terrestrial ecoregions: Eastern Canadian Shield taiga; Northwest Territories taiga; and Northern Canadian Shield taiga.
It includes varied plant communities, from lichen-rich open conifer forests to gallery forests of enormous white spruce that support a wide diversity of insects, amphibians, birds, and mammals.
Taiga is the habitat just south of the arctic tundra. Despite low precipitation, wetlands cover up to half of the ecoregion.
Northern Canadian Shield taiga is a transition zone between the boreal forests and the tundra, supporting both woodland and barren-ground caribou. Mosses, lichens, cottongrass, and very short dwarf birches cover the ground of this ecoregion.
It includes varied plant communities, from lichen-rich open conifer forests to gallery forests of enormous white spruce that support a wide diversity of insects, amphibians, birds, and mammals.
Taiga is the habitat just south of the arctic tundra. Despite low precipitation, wetlands cover up to half of the ecoregion.
Northern Canadian Shield taiga is a transition zone between the boreal forests and the tundra, supporting both woodland and barren-ground caribou. Mosses, lichens, cottongrass, and very short dwarf birches cover the ground of this ecoregion.