Biomed canada

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.
Other countries with boreal forest include Russia, which contains the majority; the United States in its northernmost state of Alaska; and the Scandinavian or Northern European countries.
In Europe, the entire boreal forest is referred to as taiga, not just the northern fringe where it thins out near the tree line.
The boreal region in Canada covers almost 60% of the country's land area.
The Canadian boreal region spans the landscape from the most easterly part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador to the border between the far northern Yukon and Alaska.
The area is dominated by coniferous forests, particularly spruce, interspersed with vast wetlands, mostly bogs and fens.
The boreal region of Canada includes eight ecozones.
While the biodiversity of regions varies, each ecozone has a characteristic native flora and fauna.

Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.
S. state of Alaska to the northwest.
Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean.
Greenland is to the northeast with a shared border on Hans Island.
To the southeast Canada shares a maritime boundary with France's overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the last vestige of New France.
By total area, Canada is the second-largest country in the world, after Russia.
By land area alone, however, Canada ranks fourth, the difference being due to it having the world's largest proportion of fresh water lakes.
Of Canada's thirteen provinces and territories, only two are landlocked while the other eleven all directly border one of three oceans.

The following is a list of ecoregions in Canada as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).