Southern Hudson Bay taiga

Southern Hudson Bay taiga

Southern Hudson Bay taiga
The Southern Hudson Bay taiga wraps around the southern and western shores of Hudson Bay and James Bay, spanning northern Ontario, Manitoba, and western Quebec. It encompasses the Hudson Bay Lowland, North America's most extensive wetland complex, where a patterned mosaic of coastal wetlands and interior peatlands gives way to black spruce, tamarack, and stunted boreal forest. The subarctic climate brings brief, cool summers and very cold winters, with permafrost grading from continuous in the north to seasonal in the south. These vast peatlands form one of Earth's largest carbon stores, and the largely intact region supports North America's southernmost polar bears, caribou, and millions of migratory birds.
RESOLVE 382
Nearctic
143,601 sq mi
Boreal Forests/Taiga
Tipo de paisagem
Boreal Forests/Taiga
Região vegetal
Nearctic
Pegada da região
143,601 sq mi
Pressão sobre o habitat
Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)
Use isto como o padrão geral de plantio para a região: The vast northern forest belt of spruce, fir, pine, and larch, defined by long, severe winters and short growing seasons. Often underlain by permafrost and wetlands, the taiga forms one of the world’s largest terrestrial carbon stores. 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

Southern Hudson Bay taiga location on world map
Marker placed inside the RESOLVE 2017 polygon at 53.9°N, 85.9°W.
A região ao longo do tempo
Pegada moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapeia 143,601 sq mi
Este limite é uma pegada ecológica moderna de Southern Hudson Bay taiga, 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 boreal forests/taiga
A região fica no reino Nearctic e é classificada como boreal forests/taiga. 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
Nature Could Reach 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.

Coleções de plantio

Receitas de plantio prontas em que cada membro aguenta a faixa climática desta região. O selo de encaixe usa a planta mais sensível da coleção, então uma coleção resiliente é um ponto de partida mais seguro do que qualquer destaque isolado.
Resiliente ao clima · 2 plantas
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Annabelle hydrangea
Coral bells
+4
Resiliente ao clima · 8 plantas
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Switchgrass
Little bluestem
Common milkweed
Black-eyed Susan
Wild bergamot
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Cutleaf coneflower
New England aster
+5
Resiliente ao clima · 9 plantas
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Butterfly weed
Common milkweed
Purple coneflower
Wild bergamot
Scarlet bee balm
Little bluestem
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Swamp sunflower
Smooth blue aster
Resiliente ao clima · 4 plantas
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
English lavender
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Switchgrass

Regiões de plantio semelhantes

Explore outras regiões com um ritmo semelhante de verões quentes e secos. Suas listas de plantas podem sugerir espécies e combinações que valem a pena comparar.
RESOLVE 369 - Nearctic
Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
The Alaska Peninsula montane taiga stretches along the rugged Alaska Peninsula from Cook Inlet to Unimak Island, taking in roughly 80% of Kodiak Island and many smaller islands. Despite the "taiga" label, much of the landscape is treeless scrub: low willow thickets on sheltered slopes, tall green-alder communities at lower elevations, and crowberry-dominated dwarf scrub on exposed uplands, set among rounded ridges and steep volcanic peaks rising to 2,600 m. The maritime climate keeps temperatures moderate while delivering heavy precipitation, from 600-3,300 mm along the coast to over 4,000 mm at higher elevations. The region is famous for the Kodiak brown bear and is well protected, with Katmai National Park and Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge safeguarding salmon streams and seabird habitat.
Boreal Forests/Taiga
Zones 8a-10b
+6.8°F by 2070
18,779 sq mi
NNH tier 1
RESOLVE 370 - Nearctic
Central Canadian Shield forests
The Central Canadian Shield forests stretch across boreal northern Quebec and Ontario, sitting entirely on the ancient Precambrian rock of the Canadian Shield north of the temperate-boreal transition and reaching the northeastern shore of Lake Superior. Under a humid mid- to high-boreal climate, the landscape is dominated by black spruce in the north and supports jack pine, balsam fir, white spruce, aspen, and birch farther south. Frequent lightning-driven fires, often burning tens of thousands of hectares, are a defining force that shapes this forest. The woodland caribou is the ecoregion's flagship species, and while much remains ecologically intact, large-scale logging and habitat fragmentation are the primary threats.
Boreal Forests/Taiga
Zones 6a-7a
+11.8°F by 2070
104,535 sq mi
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 371 - Nearctic
Cook Inlet taiga
The Cook Inlet taiga is a boreal forest ecoregion of roughly 27,790 km² surrounding the upper Cook Inlet in south-central Alaska, sheltered by mountains on all sides and encompassing Anchorage. Its gentle landscape carries a transitional boreal forest of white, black, and Lutz spruce mixed with quaking aspen, balsam poplar, black cottonwood, and paper birch, with lowland peatlands and subalpine mountain hemlock. The ocean and Alaska Current give it a relatively mild subarctic climate for Alaska, with 380–680 mm of annual precipitation. The Kenai River supports all five Pacific salmon species, and about 30% of the ecoregion is formally protected, including the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
Boreal Forests/Taiga
Zones 7a-9b
+8.3°F by 2070
10,762 sq mi
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 372 - Nearctic
Copper Plateau taiga
The Copper Plateau taiga is a flat, lake-strewn boreal plateau in interior Alaska, sitting roughly 420-900 m above sea level and ringed by high mountains. Shallow permafrost and poor drainage give it a wet, boggy landscape of black spruce, dwarf birch, heath shrubs, and sedges, with white spruce, cottonwood, and quaking aspen on better-drained sites along river corridors. The climate is sharply continental, with winter daily minimums near -27 C, summer maximums around 21 C, and annual precipitation of about 250-460 mm. Once a large lake during the Pleistocene, its wetlands now host breeding trumpeter swans, king and sockeye salmon runs, and the migrating Nelchina caribou herd. About 30% lies in protected areas, much of it within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Boreal Forests/Taiga
Zones 5b-8b
+7.1°F by 2070
6,622 sq mi
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 373 - Nearctic
Eastern Canadian forests
The Eastern Canadian forests stretch across eastern Quebec, southern Labrador, and the island of Newfoundland, with the mainland resting on the ancient Precambrian rock of the Canadian Shield. This boreal forest is dominated by balsam fir and black spruce, with white spruce along salt-sprayed coasts and paper birch and aspen colonizing burned areas. The climate is cool and wet, with harsh winters inland and milder, snowier, fog-prone conditions on maritime Newfoundland. Newfoundland's serpentine barrens, almost bare rock toxic to most plants, host rare species found nowhere else, and the region supports moose, woodland caribou, lynx, and wolves; only about 4 percent is protected, though much remains as wildland.
Boreal Forests/Taiga
Zones 5b-9a
+9.6°F by 2070
179,223 sq mi
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 374 - Nearctic
Eastern Canadian Shield taiga
The Eastern Canadian Shield taiga is a vast boreal ecoregion stretching from Hudson and James Bays to the Labrador Sea, with roughly two-thirds in Quebec and one-third in Newfoundland and Labrador. Its rugged landscape of plateaus, peatlands, and deeply incised coastal fjords supports open, stunted woodlands dominated by black spruce and tamarack. The climate is cold, with mean annual temperatures ranging from about -6°C to 1°C and annual precipitation from roughly 300–400 mm near Ungava Bay to 1,000 mm in the southeast. Only about 5% of the ecoregion is protected, and just 25% of the habitat outside protected areas remains intact. It holds most of the year-round range of the George River barren-ground caribou herd, once the world's largest migratory herd but reduced by some 99% to under 9,000 animals by 2016.
Boreal Forests/Taiga
Zones 5a-8b
+11.9°F by 2070
291,420 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 - 3 ecoprovíncias
6.2 · Mid-Boreal Shield
15.1 · Hudson Bay Coastal Plains
15.2 · Hudson-James Lowlands
Fonte: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, NEF v2.2 (Licença de Governo Aberto - Canadá).

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Nível NNH
Canada Plant Hardiness
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