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Catalogue Entry: Threats to Ecosystems - Sewage Treatment
Urban living generates waste that is usually treated to some degree and then discharged into water bodies. Too much waste can pose a risk to aquatic ecosystems and species.... -
Catalogue Entry: Threats to Ecosystems - Road Density
Transportation activities have a great impact on the environment because they fracture natural habitats and create pollution. Roads intrude into natural habitats, separating... -
Catalogue Entry: Threats to Ecosystems - Population Variation by Ecoprovince, 1971 to 1996
The higher the concentration of people in an ecoprovince, the higher the chance of loss of habitat and species. To better evaluate and minimize population impacts on the... -
Catalogue Entry: Threats to Ecosystems - Industrial Discharge Sites
Industrial activities generate waste that is discharged into water bodies, the air or ends up in landfill sites. Air is the most common release medium. Ammonia, methanol, sulfur... -
Catalogue Entry: Percentage of Ecoregion Protected
Protected areas are defined as legally established areas, both land and water, that are regulated and managed for conservation objectives. They include parks, wildlife and... -
Catalogue Entry: Human Activities in Ecosystems - Productive Forest Land Use
Forests sustain hundreds of economies across Canada. The forest industry is an active player in the conservation and sustainability of forested ecosystems. Forests are managed... -
Catalogue Entry: Human Activities in Ecosystems - Mining Sites
In Canada, mines are most heavily concentrated in the Mixedwood Plains, Boreal Shield, Prairie, and Montane Cordillera ecozones. Mines require accessibility, and are therefore... -
Catalogue Entry: Ecosystem Components: Wetland Diversity
Wetlands are lands where water saturation is the dominant factor. Wetlands occupy about 18% of Canada, and Canada has about 25% of the world’s wetlands. Wetlands foster the... -
Catalogue Entry: Ecosystem Components - Rare Plant Diversity
Some plants are rare because they naturally occur in very specialized habitats or in very low numbers; others may be rare because they have suffered setbacks because of natural... -
Catalogue Entry: Ecosystem Components: Land Cover Diversity
Ecoregions vary in their make up and complexity. Some are relatively uniform in their composition, structure and processes. Others contain extreme variations in relief, soils,... -
Catalogue Entry: Ecosystem Components - Endemic Plant Diversity
Endemic plants are those plants found only in Canada. These plants have genetically adapted to these particular environmental conditions. Because these are found nowhere else,... -
Catalogue Entry: Terrestrial Ecozones
Canada has defined a hierarchical classification of ecosystems. At a simple level there are 20 ecozones, fifteen terrestrial and five marine. An ecozone is an area of the... -
Catalogue Entry: Ecological Framework
Fifteen ecozones make up terrestrial Canada, and five make up the marine waters bordering Canada. Canada’s 15 terrestrial ecozones can be subdivided into 53 ecoprovinces, which... -
Catalogue Entry: October Mean Daily Maximum Temperatures
The map shows the mean daily maximum temperatures for October. Much of southern Canada experiences maximum temperatures in October above 10°C, whereas maximum temperatures... -
Catalogue Entry: October Mean Daily Minimum Temperatures
The map shows the mean daily minimum temperatures for October. In October, longer nights and a return to below-freezing minimum temperatures is evident across most of Canada... -
Catalogue Entry: July Mean Daily Maximum Temperatures
The map shows the mean daily maximum temperatures for July. Maximum temperatures in July are above freezing across all of Canada except for high elevations on Ellesmere Island.... -
Catalogue Entry: July Mean Daily Minimum Temperatures
The map shows the mean daily maximum temperatures for July. Maximum temperatures in July are above freezing across all of Canada except for high elevations on Ellesmere Island.... -
Catalogue Entry: January Mean Daily Maximum Temperatures
The map shows the mean daily maximum temperatures for January. Weak or no sunshine means there is minimal diurnal variation between the maximum and minimum temperatures in... -
Catalogue Entry: January Mean Daily Minimum Temperatures
The map shows the mean daily minimum temperatures for January. January marks the depths of winter across Canada and, with the exception of the coastal parts of southern... -
Catalogue Entry: April Mean Daily Maximum Temperatures
The map shows the mean daily maximum temperatures for April. Below-freezing maximum temperatures in April are restricted to northern Canada and the extreme northern portions of...