Ecosystems
Canadian Boreal Forest
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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.
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Area (sq km)270 million hectares converts to 2,700,000 square kilometers (1 hectare equals 0.01 square kilometers). Cross-Tradition Connections
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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.
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.
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1. 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.
Boreal Forest of Canada (Wikipedia)
Wikipedialead sectionQuote, lead section
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.
Boreal Forest of Canada (Wikipedia)
WikipediaOpen Questions: Open Question: Canadian Boreal ForestView the Source 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.
Open 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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