Atlantic Maritime Ecozone

1
Atlantic Maritime Ecozone
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
and southeastern Quebec
Human Activities
Landforms
Major cities
climate
Vegetation
Soils
Wildlife
2
CLIMATE
Back to Home Page

• Covering Quebec's peninsula and the entirety of
  Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New
  Brunswick, this ecozone's climate is strongly
  influence by the Atlantic Ocean, which produces
  cooler summers and warmer winters. Winter
  temperatures average -5ºC and summers average
  14ºC, with coastal areas having slightly warmer
  winters and cooler summers than inland. The
  Atlantic also provides moisture to the region,
  producing mean precipitation of 900mm a year
  inland and over 1500mm a year on the coast this
  high precipitation also means that the region has
  more storms than anywhere else in the country.at
  the bottom of this page click on the link and it
  shows you the Climate graph of Prince Edward
  Island or Click on the Link next to it to see a
  climate graph of New Brunswick

Climate Graph of Prince Edward Island
Climate Graph of Nova Scotia
3
Flyby Of Nova Scotia
Back To Landforms
Back to Homepage
4
LANDFORMS
Back To Homepage

• This ecozone is located at the northeast end of
  the Appalachian Mountain chain and consists of
  highlands, peninsulas and islands. Linked is a
  Flyby of Nova Scotia to see what it looks like

Flyby of Nova Scotia
5
HUMAN ACTIVITIES
Back To Homepage

• Human activities has drastically changed the
  ecozone, beginning with the ditching, and
  drainage of many salt marshes of the Bay of Fundy
  by early Acadian settlers. Most native forests
  have been harvested or burned at least five
  times, and wildlife species and habitat have
  been greatly affected. The combination of
  hunting, parasites, and habitat modification due
  to logging and fire suppression extirpated the
  Woodland Caribou from the Maritime provinces.
  Intensive fishing has changed the composition of
  freshwater ecosystems, as has the discharge of
  agricultural, urban, and industrial wastes in
  harbours and waterways. The Atlantic or Acadian
  Whitefish is endangered by over fishing and water
  pollution.

6
VEGETATION
Back To Homepage

• This ecozone is a transitional forest with
  elements of both the deciduous and boreal
  forests. It is a continuation of the mixed wood
  plains ecozone, but is dominated by spruces and
  balsam fir. Yellow birch, sugar maple, red pine,
  eastern white pine and eastern hemlock are also
  present.?In southern New Brunswick and on the
  coast of Nova Scotia, the forest has a more
  boreal-like appearance with formations dominated
  by fir, white spruce and black spruce. A number
  of decdious species such as red oak, American
  beech, black ash, red maple and white birch occur
  in sheltered areas.

7
SOILS
Back to Home Page

• In the uplands, repeated glaciation has
  produced shallow, stony soils, and outcrops
  composed of granite, gneiss, and other hard,
  crystalline rocks. Rough upland terrain and poor
  soils are often unsuitable for farming and have
  discouraged extensive settlement. The
  inhospitable highlands feature cold, wet climates
  and acidic soils, but yield vast forests. In the
  Coastal lowlands of the Northumberland Plain
  deeper soils are traced to marine deposition and
  glacial erosion of underlying sandstone, shale,
  and limestone bedrock. With the exception of
  P.E.I., abrupt transitions between uplands mark
  much of the ecozone's landscape. The majority of
  the ecozone is overlaid by nutrient-poor Podzol
  soil and better-quality grey-brown Luvisol soils.

8
MAJOR CITIES
Back To Homepage

• Major cities in the Atlantic Maritime are
• - Halifax, Nova Scotia
• - Fredericton, New Brunswick
• - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
• -Mocton, New Brunswick

9
Climate Graph of PEI
Back To climate Page
Back to Home Page
Average Temp. 5.30833333
Temperature Range 26.5
Total precipitation 1173.4
Season of Maximum Precipitation Winter
10
Climate Graph Of Nova Scotia
Back To Home Page
Back to Climate page
11
WILDLIFE
Back To Homepage

• Wildlife Characteristic mammals of the Atlantic
  Maritime Ecozone include white-tailed deer,
  moose, black bear, raccoon, striped skunk, bobcat
  and eastern chipmunk. Representative birds
  include whip-poor-will, blue jay eastern bluebird
  and rose-breasted grosbeak. In the marine
  environment, representative species include grey
  seal, hooded and harp seals, and Atlantic pilot,
  killer, and northern bottlenosed whales.