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ARCTIC OCEAN
2.2 ALASKA TUNDRA 11.1 MEDITERRANEAN CALIFORNIA
RÉGIONS ÉCOLOGIQUES DE L'AMÉRIQUE DU NORD The maps shown here represent a second attempt to holistically
TUNDRA DE ALASKA CALIFORNIA MEDITERRÁNEA
TOUNDRA D'ALASKA CALIFORNIE MÉDITERRANÉENNE 1.1
2.3 BROOKS RANGE TUNDRA OCÉANO ÁRTICO 2.1
classify and map ecological regions across the North American
continent (Commission for Environmental Cooperation Working
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TUNDRA DE LA SIERRA DE BROOKS
OCÉAN ARCTIQUE
12.0 SOUTHERN SEMI-ARID HIGHLANDS
TOUNDRA DE LA SIERRA DE BROOKS ELEVACIONES SEMIÁRIDAS MERIDIONALES
HAUTES TERRES SEMI-ARIDES MÉRIDIONALES 1.1 Group, 1997). The mapping from 1997 and 2006 was built upon
2.4 SOUTHERN ARCTIC
ÁRTICO MERIDIONAL 12.1 WESTERN SIERRA MADRE PIEDMONT
earlier efforts that had begun individually in all three countries
2.2
ARCTIQUE MÉRIDIONALE PIEDEMONTE DE LA SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL
2.2 (e.g., Wiken 1986, Omernik 1987). These approaches recognized
the need to consider a full range of physical and biotic
PIEDMONT DE LA SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTALE
1.1
2.1
3.0 TAIGA
TAIGA
12.2 MEXICAN HIGH PLATEAU
ALTIPLANICIE MEXICANA
2.1
2.1
2.1 characteristics to explain ecosystem regions (Omernik 2004).
TAÏGA HAUT PLATEAU MEXICAIN Equally, they recognized that the relative importance of each
Beaufort Sea
6.1 2.3
3.1 ALASKA BOREAL INTERIOR 2.1 1.1 characteristic varies from one ecological region to another
ALASKA BOREAL INTERIOR 2.2 Mar de Beaufort regardless of the hierarchical level. In describing
ALASKA BORÉAL INTÉRIEUR
Mer de Beaufort
2.2
ecoregionalization in Canada, Wiken (1986) stated:
7.1 3.1
3.2 TAIGA CORDILLERA 6.1
TAIGA EN CORDILLERA
Ecological land classification is a process of delineating and
3.1
6.1
2.1
TAÏGA EN CORDILLÈRE
Bering Sea 3.1 classifying ecologically distinctive areas of the Earth’s
3.3 TAIGA PLAIN
TAIGA EN PLANICIE
Mar de Bering 7.1
2.1
2.1
surface. Each area can be viewed as a discrete system which
TAÏGA EN PLAINE
2.2
Mer de Bering has resulted from the mesh and interplay of the geologic,
landform, soil, vegetative, climatic, wildlife, water and
2.1 1.1
3.4 TAIGA SHIELD
TAIGA EN ESCUDO
TAÏGA EN BOUCLIER 2.2 human factors which may be present. The dominance of any
2.1
one or a number of these factors varies with the given
4.0 HUDSON PLAIN
PLANICIE DE HUDSON
2.1
ecological land unit. This holistic approach to land
40°0'0"N PLAINE D'HUDSON 7.1
Nettilling
Lake classification can be applied incrementally on a scale related
4.1 HUDSON PLAIN
3.2
2.1
basis from very site-specific ecosystems to very broad
PLANICIE DE HUDSON
PLAINE D'HUDSON 7.1 ecosystems.
Great Bear Lake 2.1
2.4 Amadjuak Lake
7.1
5.0 NORTHERN FORESTS
BOSQUES SEPTENTRIONALES Determining ecological regions at a continental level is a
FORÊTS SEPTENTRIONALES 6.1 2.1 challenging task. It is difficult, in part, because North America is
5.1 SOFTWOOD SHIELD
BOSQUE DE CONÍFERAS EN ESCUDO 2.4
ecologically diverse and because a nation’s territorial boundaries
FORÊT À CONIFÈRES DU BOUCLIER 13.0 TEMPERATE SIERRAS
SIERRAS TEMPLADAS
3.3 can be a hindrance to seeing and appreciating the perspectives
5.2 MIXED WOOD SHIELD SIERRAS TÉMPERÉES across the land-mass of three countries. Developing and refining
a framework of North American ecological regions has been the
BOSQUE MIXTO EN ESCUDO 2.1
FORÊT MIXTE DU BOUCLIER 13.1 UPPER GILA MOUNTAINS Dubawnt
SIERRAS DE LA CUENCA DEL RÍO GILA
SIERRAS DU BASSIN DU GILA
Lake 1.1
product of research and consultation between federal, state,
5.3 ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
ELEVACIONES ATLÁNTICAS Great Slave provincial and territorial agencies. These agencies were often
13.2 WESTERN SIERRA MADRE Lake
HAUTES TERRES DE L'ATLANTIQUE
SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL 2.4 government departments, but the initiative also involved
5.4 BOREAL PLAIN SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTALE
nongovernmental groups, universities and institutes. The
PLANICIE BOREAL
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1.0
13.1
characteristics to be identified, and more specifically oriented
ARCTIC OCEAN 1.0
8.5
management strategies to be formulated.
10.2
OCÉANO ÁRTICO 13.1
OCÉAN ARCTIQUE
2.0
8.3
12.1
2.0
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