Queen Charlotte Islands conifer forests

Queen Charlotte Islands conifer forests

Queen Charlotte Islands conifer forests
The Queen Charlotte Islands conifer forests cover the Haida Gwaii archipelago, roughly 150 islands lying about 90 km off the north coast of mainland British Columbia, Canada. Steep slopes rise in the west and gentle lowlands stretch east, cloaked in coastal temperate rainforest of western red cedar, Alaska yellow cedar, shore pine, and Sitka spruce, with growth often stunted on windswept western shores. The maritime climate is cool and very wet, averaging about 7.5°C with rainfall ranging from roughly 800 mm in the east to 4,000 mm on western slopes. Long isolation has produced notable endemism in plants and animals, and the islands host large breeding seabird colonies, making old-growth conservation a priority.
RESOLVE 365
Nearctic
3,937 sq mi
Temperate Conifer Forests
Tipo de paisagem
Temperate Conifer Forests
Região vegetal
Nearctic
Pegada da região
3,937 sq mi
Pressão sobre o habitat
Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 1)
Use isto como o padrão geral de plantio para a região: Temperate forests dominated by evergreen conifers, from coastal rainforests to montane pine and fir stands. Adapted to cool, moist or seasonally dry climates, they include some of the tallest and longest-lived trees on the planet. Para decisões de jardim, combine esse contexto com a lista de plantas abaixo e depois refine pelas restrições de luz, água, solo e tamanho adulto do seu local.

Range & origins

Queen Charlotte Islands conifer forests location on world map
Marker placed inside the RESOLVE 2017 polygon at 53.4°N, 132.2°W.
A região ao longo do tempo
Pegada moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapeia 3,937 sq mi
Este limite é uma pegada ecológica moderna de Queen Charlotte Islands conifer forests, não uma linha permanente no planeta. É útil para o contexto atual de plantas e fauna porque segue padrões recorrentes de vegetação, clima, relevo e perturbações.
Por que aqui
Condições de temperate conifer forests
A região fica no reino Nearctic e é classificada como temperate conifer forests. Altitude, umidade, fogo, solos, costas e o uso humano da terra podem tornar a paisagem real mais variada do que uma única cor no mapa sugere.
Pressão de mudança
Half Protected
O Plotwright mostra isto como a pegada RESOLVE atual. Ao longo de décadas a séculos, o aquecimento, as perturbações, as espécies invasoras, o uso da terra e a restauração podem mover a borda viva de uma região mesmo quando o mapa de referência permanece fixo.

Regiões de plantio semelhantes

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RESOLVE 345 - Nearctic
Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
The Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests form a transitional temperate conifer ecoregion straddling the boundary between the Rocky Mountains to the west and the Mid-Canada boreal plains to the east, lying mostly in Alberta with a portion in British Columbia. Mixed forests of lodgepole pine, quaking aspen, jack pine, and white spruce dominate, with balsam poplar, paper birch, and balsam fir also common, while wetter sites support black spruce and tamarack. The climate is subhumid and cold temperate, with short summers averaging 13-15C, cold winters from -17.5 to -10C, and annual precipitation of roughly 400-600 mm. Heavily altered by agriculture, logging, and oil and gas development, only about 1% of the ecoregion holds protected status.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 6b-7b
+5.6°F by 2070
46,764 sq mi
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 346 - Nearctic
Arizona Mountains forests
The Arizona Mountains forests — the sky-island and Mogollon Rim forest belt of central and eastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and a thin strip in adjacent Mexico. Elevation banding from desert grassland and pinyon-juniper through ponderosa pine + Gambel oak, Douglas fir + aspen + white fir at higher elevations, and isolated subalpine spruce-fir on the highest peaks (Humphreys Peak, Mt. Baldy). The 'Madrean sky islands' on the southern edge connect biotic elements of the Sierra Madre Occidental with the Southwest US.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 8a-11b
+3.7°F by 2070
42,830 sq mi
Editorial profile
NNH tier 4
RESOLVE 347 - Nearctic
Atlantic coastal pine barrens
The Atlantic coastal pine barrens — the fire-dependent pitch pine + scrub oak ecosystem of the New Jersey Pinelands, Long Island Pine Barrens, Cape Cod, and smaller patches across coastal Massachusetts and adjacent Rhode Island / Connecticut / Delaware. Sandy, acidic, nutrient-poor soils plus historic frequent fire produced the open canopy and rich heath / sedge understory. The NJ Pinelands National Reserve protects the largest remnant.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 8b-11a
+5.7°F by 2070
5,517 sq mi
Editorial profile
NNH tier 3
RESOLVE 348 - Nearctic
Blue Mountains forests
The Blue Mountains forests cover the elevated interior of northeastern Oregon and adjacent southeastern Washington — a Pacific-Northwest-but-not-coastal landscape of ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, grand fir, and western larch on the uplands, with sagebrush-steppe filling the lower valleys. Drier and more continental than the western Cascades; the region's plant palette is closer to the Northern Rockies' inland-PNW look than to the rainforest west of the crest.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 8b-9b
+4.4°F by 2070
27,315 sq mi
Editorial profile
NNH tier 3
RESOLVE 349 - Nearctic
British Columbia coastal conifer forests
The British Columbia Coastal Conifer Forests ecoregion spans the mainland Coast Mountains of British Columbia, just inland of the outer Pacific coast, across the Pacific and Kitimat Ranges to elevations near 4,000 meters. Conifers dominate, especially Douglas-fir and western hemlock communities alongside western red cedar, amabilis fir, and Alaskan yellow cedar in subalpine zones. The wet maritime climate brings annual precipitation from about 1,500 mm at lower elevations to 3,400 mm higher up, falling mostly in winter, with drier summers. Lowland forests are notably rich in epiphytes, fungi, amphibians, and invertebrates, and the Great Bear Rainforest here holds ancient stands representing a quarter of the world's coastal temperate rainforest.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 7a-11a
+3.6°F by 2070
42,676 sq mi
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 350 - Nearctic
Central British Columbia Mountain forests
The Central British Columbia Mountain forests stretch northwest-to-southeast across north-central British Columbia, east of the Coast Mountains, spanning ranges such as the Omineca, Skeena, Stikine, and Hart at elevations from 700 to 2,400 metres. Low slopes carry western red cedar, western hemlock, lodgepole pine, aspen, and spruce, grading into subalpine Engelmann spruce and fir and, on the highest ground, alpine tundra. The climate is subarctic, with a mean annual temperature near 2°C, summers around 12°C, and cold winters. The grizzly bear is the flagship species, but only about 6% of the ecoregion is protected, leaving it exposed to intensive logging.
Temperate Conifer Forests
Zones 7a-11a
+4.2°F by 2070
53,825 sq mi
NNH tier 2

Sub-regiões de refinamento nacional

Dentro desta ecorregião RESOLVE, as agências nacionais reconhecem sub-regiões mais detalhadas. O Plotwright atribui cada polígono de sub-região ao polígono RESOLVE que o contém pelo centroide.
Ecoprovíncias NEF do Canadá - 1 ecoprovíncia
13.2 · Southern Coastal Mountains
Fonte: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, NEF v2.2 (Licença de Governo Aberto - Canadá).

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