Canada's boreal forest makes up about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest ringing the Northern Hemisphere, covering almost 60 percent of Canada's land area, mostly north of the 50th parallel. Estimates for its undisturbed extent run to roughly three million square kilometers, with the Boreal Shield alone, its largest ecozone, covering 1.63 million square kilometers. Researchers remain uncertain how large a net carbon source rising temperatures and disturbance will make the forest over the coming century. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Area (sq km)270 million hectares converts to 2,700,000 square kilometers (1 hectare equals 0.01 square kilometers). Classification
Biogeographic Realm Connections
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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Source World Wildlife Fund
The cited source names Canada broadly rather than the boreal forest by name specifically; most of the beaver's Canadian range lies within its boreal forest belt, where its dams are a defining feature of the wetlands the forest carries.
Source Beaver (Hinterland Who's Who)
Source Canada jay (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Canada Lynx
Source Wikipedia: Hylocomium splendens
Source Wikipedia: Hylocomium splendens
The cited source names Canada broadly rather than the boreal forest by name specifically; most of Canada's wolf range lies within its boreal forest belt.
Source Wolf (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Hylocomium splendens
Source Sphagnum magellanicum (Wikipedia)
Source Pleurozium schreberi (Wikipedia)
Source Cladonia rangiferina, Wikipedia
Source Sphagnum magellanicum (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Hylocomium splendens
Source The Gymnosperm Database: The Gymnosperm Database: Tamarack
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Source Boreal Forest of Canada (Wikipedia)
Open Questions
Source Boreal Forest of Canada (Wikipedia)
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1. Boreal Forest of Canada (Wikipedia)
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Canada's boreal forest is a vast region comprising about one third of the circumpolar boreal forest that rings the Northern Hemisphere, mostly north of the 50th parallel.
- Biogeographic realm: nearctic (derived from location stated in entity description)
- Open Questions: Open Question: Canadian Boreal Forest
View the Source 2. Boreal Forest of Canada (Natural Resources Canada)
Natural Resources Canada, Government of CanadaWhy the boreal forest matters sectionQuote, Why the boreal forest matters section
Canada's boreal forest (270 million hectares) stores carbon, purifies the air and water, and regulates the climate.
Wolf (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHosts: Gray Wolf, Distribution and habitatQuote, Hosts: Gray Wolf, Distribution and habitat
Wolves occur across Eurasia and North America.
Beaver (Hinterland Who's Who)
Hinterland Who's WhoHosts: Beaver, RangeQuote, Hosts: Beaver, Range
Beavers are found throughout Canada, north to the mouths of the Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers on the Arctic Ocean.
World Wildlife Fund
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Wolverine
Wikimedia FoundationHosts: Wolverine, Wikipedia 'Wolverine': found primarily in the northern boreal forests, with the greatest numbers in Northern CanadaView the Source The Gymnosperm Database: The Gymnosperm Database: Tamarack
The Gymnosperm DatabaseHosts: Tamarack, Distribution and EcologyQuote, Hosts: Tamarack, Distribution and Ecology
Found at 0-1200 m elevation in boreal forests
Wikipedia: Canada Lynx
WikipediaHosts: Canada Lynx, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 346049, target E266744Quote, Hosts: Canada Lynx, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 346049, target E266744
It ranges across Alaska, Canada and northern areas of the contiguous United States, where it predominantly inhabits dense boreal forests.
Wikipedia: Hylocomium splendens
Hosts: Hylocomium Splendens, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 342654, target E266744
Hylocomium splendens, commonly known as glittering woodmoss, splendid feather moss, stairstep moss, and mountain fern moss, is a perennial clonal moss with a widespread distribution in Northern Hemisphere boreal forests.
Hosts: Glittering Wood-moss, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 342308, target E266744
Hylocomium splendens, commonly known as glittering woodmoss, splendid feather moss, stairstep moss, and mountain fern moss, is a perennial clonal moss with a widespread distribution in Northern Hemisphere boreal forests.
Hosts: Stair-step Moss, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 313802, target E266744
Hylocomium splendens, commonly known as glittering woodmoss, splendid feather moss, stairstep moss, and mountain fern moss, is a perennial clonal moss with a widespread distribution in Northern Hemisphere boreal forests.
Hosts: Feather Moss, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 295822, target E266744
Hylocomium splendens, commonly known as glittering woodmoss, splendid feather moss, stairstep moss, and mountain fern moss, is a perennial clonal moss with a widespread distribution in Northern Hemisphere boreal forests.
View the SourcePleurozium schreberi (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Red-stemmed Feathermoss, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 313800, target E266744Quote, Hosts: Red-stemmed Feathermoss, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 313800, target E266744
The species is commonly found on the floor of the boreal forests of Canada, Scandinavia, and northern Russia.
Canada jay (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Canada jay, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 358377, target E266744Quote, Hosts: Canada jay, article text (ecosystem), EntityId 358377, target E266744
It is found in boreal forests of North America, north to the tree line, and in the Rocky Mountains subalpine zone south to New Mexico and Arizona.
Cladonia rangiferina, Wikipedia
Hosts: Reindeer Lichen, Article textQuote, Hosts: Reindeer Lichen, Article text
A specific biome in which this lichen is represented is the boreal forests of Canada.
Sphagnum magellanicum (Wikipedia)
Hosts: Magellanic Bogmoss, Lead
Sphagnum magellanicum, commonly called Magellanic bogmoss, Magellan's sphagnum, Magellan's peatmoss or midway peat moss, is a widespread species of moss found in wet boreal forest in the far south and southwest of South America and in northern North America and Eurasia.
Hosts: Sphagnum magellanicum, Lead
Sphagnum magellanicum, commonly called Magellanic bogmoss, Magellan's sphagnum, Magellan's peatmoss or midway peat moss, is a widespread species of moss found in wet boreal forest in the far south and southwest of South America and in northern North America and Eurasia.
View the SourceOpen Questions (1 open question)
Open Question: Canadian Boreal Forest
The Canadian boreal forest's own Wikipedia entry states that increasing temperatures and disturbance rates will make the forest a net carbon source for more than a hundred years, and that this will have global impacts researchers are still uncertain about.
What would resolve this Long-term carbon-flux monitoring across the boreal forest's major disturbance regimes, combined with climate modeling of the resulting global feedback.
Forest ecologyBoreal Forest of Canada (Wikipedia)
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