Featured Sites

• Forest Fire in Canada
• GeoBase
• Forest Ecosystem Research Network of Sites (FERNS)
• CFS Bookstore
• Forest insects and diseases of Canada's forests
• National Forest Health and Biodiversity Database
• Parks Canada
• The Atlas of Canada
• Canada's Wetlands

Interactive Maps

On this site

• Snapshots of Disturbances
• Net Primary Production (NPP)
• Vegetation Zones and Bioclimatic Domains of Quebec
• Snapshots of Quebec forest cover

From CFSNet

• Forest ecosystem mapping in Canada

From The Atlas of Canada

• Wetland Diversity
• Terrestrial Ecozones

Learn more about the forest ecosystems of Canada by exploring four themes: classification, dynamics, disturbances and issues. You can also access scientific information, sites of interest and databases on ecosystems.

An overview of forests in Canada; descriptions are based on the forest's major ecological characteristics.

Discover Canada's forest ecozones and Quebec's 10 bioclimatic domains, illustrated by photographs and interactive maps.

Ecosystem balance is sustained by two inseparable phenomena: the production and decomposition of organic matter. Light and water initiate and maintain these dynamics.

Forest dynamics are affected by many events that lead to the establishment of new ecosystem balances. Some of these events are naturally occurring and some are not.

Forests are an important natural resource. Their management is subject to the full range of national and worldwide influences and trends.