Temperate coniferous forest ecoregion in British Columbia, Canada
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Fraser Plateau and Basin complex" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(December 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
Forests of the Fraser Plateau southwest of Williams Lake, British Columbia
Ecology
Realm
Nearctic
Biome
Temperate coniferous forests
Borders
List
British Columbia mainland coastal forests
Cascade Mountains leeward forests
Central British Columbia Mountain forests
North Central Rockies forests
Northern transitional alpine forests
Okanagan dry forests
Bird species
172[1]
Mammal species
61[1]
Geography
Area
137,100 km2 (52,900 sq mi)
Country
Canada
State
British Columbia
Rivers
Fraser River
Conservation
Conservation status
Critical/Endangered
Habitat loss
1.0747%[1]
Protected
8.55%[1]
The Fraser Plateau and Basin Complex is an ecoregion, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. It encompasses the middle reaches of the watershed of the Fraser River as it traverses the northern part of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia. The WWF ecoregion is similar in description to two of the ecoregions within Environment Canada's Montane Cordillera Ecozone:The Fraser Basin and the Fraser Plateau. Much of the Fraser Plateau is underlain by volcanic rocks which have steep escarpments along rivers and creeks and almost flat upper surfaces.
Physiographically, the Fraser Basin is a section of the larger Northern Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division.
^ abcd
Hoekstra, J. M.; Molnar, J. L.; Jennings, M.; Revenga, C.; Spalding, M. D.; Boucher, T. M.; Robertson, J. C.; Heibel, T. J.; Ellison, K. (2010). Molnar, J. L. (ed.). The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26256-0.
and 27 Related for: Fraser Plateau and Basin complex information
Columbia Fraser Valley, the region flanking the lowermost reaches of the Fraser River, from the town of Hope to the sea FraserPlateauandBasincomplex, a...
coniferous forests are found predominantly in areas with warm summers and cool winters, and vary in their kinds of plant life. In some, needleleaf trees dominate...
deserts and xeric shrublands, warm temperate and subtropical pine and pine-oak forests, and Mediterranean climate ecoregions of the Mexican Plateau, Baja...
ranges of the Rocky Mountains, in central and western Colorado, northern New Mexico and southeastern Wyoming, and experiences a dry continental climate....
by unique species and topographical features (coastal plain ponds, frost pocket), generally nutrient-poor, often acidic soils and a pine tree distribution...
woodland habitats and wildlife. This is a landscape of steep mountains and high stony plateaus with rocky outcrops from the Kaibab Plateau in northern Arizona...
the rest of Canada. However, it and the neighbouring Columbia Plateau ecoregion near Osoyoos are semi-arid ecoregions and are not true deserts. Vegetative...
grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) and a number of birds of prey. The Fraser River is particularly important for salmon and also acts as a barrier to the movement...
of Telegraph Creek and 85 kilometres (53 miles) southwest of Dease Lake. The complex encompasses a broad, steep-sided lava plateau that extends over 1...
Washington. Specific areas include the Pacific and Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains, the Nass Ranges and the basin of the Nass River. An exclave of the ecoregion...
of mountain ranges, intermontane basins, andplateaus in Western and Northwestern Canada, Western United States, and Mexico, including much of the territory...
suspended solids, alkalinity, and hardness values are lower than elsewhere in the South Central Plains. Water quality in forested basins is better than in pastureland...
ecoregion occupies a transitional region of mountains and valleys between the Coast Ranges to the west and the Omineca Mountains to the east. It varies greatly...
Yellowstone Plateau, extending outward on connected mountain ranges, but the ecoregion also includes the isolated Bighorn Mountains and Black Hills,...
being: The FraserPlateau The Chilcotin Plateau The Cariboo Plateau The Bonaparte Plateau (part of the Thompson Plateau in some definitions, and also known...
Phanerozoic sedimentary basinsand in faulted contact with the 2.7 Ga to 2.55 Ga Yilgarn tectonic domains, lies the Jimperding Gneiss Complex of 2.75 to 2.65...
within the FraserPlateauandBasincomplex, in a transition area between the wetter Quesnel Highland to the east, and the dry Chilcotin Plateau to the west...
dominated by western red cedar and western hemlock in the northwest, and forests of lodgepole pine, quaking aspen, and black and white spruce in the southeast...
flood large swaths of coastal wetland and lowland forest. Regions at highest risk include the Fraser Lowland and Skagit Valley. The opportunity exists...
ecoregion include Glacier National Park and Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex in northwestern Montana, Yoho and Kootenay National Parks in southeastern...
The Wasatch and Uinta montane forest is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion in the Wasatch Range and Uinta Mountains of the western Rocky Mountains...
Alberta and taking in the Alberta-British Columbia border from Banff north to Jasper, Alberta and Kakwa Wildlands Park. This is an area of glaciers and high...
Global Information
