The Northern Appalachian/Acadian Ecoregion: Conservation Assessment 2006
By The Nature Conservancy: Eastern Regional Science division and The Nature Conservancy Canada: Atlantic and Quebec Regions
The Ecoregion Assessment measures and summarize the status
of Nature Conservation in the Northern Appalachian / Acadian Ecoregion. Using
sophisticated quantitative and spatial analysis techniques, it summarizes three
decades of ecological inventory data, geological, hydrological, and landcover
mapping, advanced predictive modeling techniques and expert knowledge from the
abundant store of academic, state, provincial and privately based conservation
scientists in the region.
The goal of this assessment was to provide a rigorous, repeatable identification of the most critical ecological features of the region, a consistent, transparent rendering of trends and to serve as an initial benchmark against which to measure, focus and improve conservation efforts in this remarkable region.
Ecoregional Statistics
- Total Acres = 82,865,628
- Forest 83%
- Wetlands 4%
- Water 11%
- Natural cover 97%
- Developed 3%
- Agriculture 22%
- Rare species = 523
- All plants, vertebrates and macro invertebrate species = 3,844
- Protected lands
- GAP 1 and 2 status 7%
- GAP 3 land 28%
Citation: Anderson, M.G., Vickery, B., Gorman, M., Gratton, L., Morrison, M., Maillet, J., Olivero, A., Ferree, C., Morse, D., Kehm, G., Rosalska, K., Khanna, S., and S. Bernstein. 2006. The Northern Appalachian / Acadian Ecoregion: Ecoregional Assessment, Conservation Status and Resource CD. The Nature Conservancy, Eastern Conservation Science and The Nature Conservancy of Canada: Atlantic and Quebec regions