Southern Arctic Plains
- In the very north part of Canada there are 3 main Ecozones.
- They are Southern Arctic Ecozone, Northern Arctic Ecozone and Cordillera Ecozone.
- This picture is of Southern Arctic.
The Southern Arctic Ecozone covers northern mainland Canada from the coastal foothills of the Richardson Mountains in the Yukon to Ungava Bay in northern Quebec. Over 80% of the land area in this ecozone lies west of Hudson Bay. Of the three arctic ecozones, this one has the most extensive vegetative cover and highest biodiversity. It is represented in the Yukon in only one ecoregion, the Yukon Coastal Plain.
Most of the Southern Arctic Ecozone is underlain by Precambrian granitic bedrock, and the terrain consists largely of broadly rolling rocky uplands and intermittent lowlands.